in hot water
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A French teenager was fined in Singapore Thursday after pleading guilty to a public nuisance charge for a straw-licking stunt that landed him in hot water in the city state.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Or skip the coffee and steep cinnamon stalks in hot water with lime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The veteran litigator found herself in hot water after her efforts to broker a detente between Cipriani and Shell spectacularly backfired.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
But one New Yorker's failure to endorse his home team has landed him in hot water with Knicks fans.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Still, feeling deeply that his filth was an unforgivable imposition, he’d chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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