hot-stove league

[ hot-stohv ]

/ ˈhɒtˈstoʊv /

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noun

devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.

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Origin of hot-stove league

First recorded in 1950–55

Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
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Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
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Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
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There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
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Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
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Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
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News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
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From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
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