piping hot
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“You bring a piping hot cup of coffee at 100-degree summer weather, I might judge you a little bit,” said Cho, who’s based in Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Your daughter made you a lukewarm cup of tea, and you are rewarding her with a piping hot mug of the finest Colombian coffee.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026
In fact, a massive round metal object had plummeted from above landing on farmland near a dry riverbed - and it was piping hot.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025
Thursday mornings at La Princesita Tortilleria in East Los Angeles are devoted to making chips, so customers couldn’t get any piping hot tortillas when I visited last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024
I was rarely appeased by the words piping hot.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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