hot as blazes

1. Also, hot as hell. Extremely warm, as in It was hot as blazes in that room, or I'm hot as hell and would love a cold shower. The first of these hyperbolic similes dates from the mid-1800s, the second from the early 1900s.

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Movies too, especially when it’s hot as blazes outside and the coolest remedy is to stay at home with a film and a pitcher of cold lemonade.

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It was “hot as blazes in the summer,” and cold in the winter, remembers Vernon Ross, who was baptized there in 1939.

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It was only April, but it was already hot as blazes.

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It was hot as blazes outside—humid, too, and inside our house, all the air conditioners hummed in the windows.

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It was hot as blazes, as it is wont to be in Charlottesville in August.

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