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red-hot poker

noun



red-hot poker

noun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of red-hot poker1

First recorded in 1885–90; so called from the fiery red blossoms at the end of the flower spike
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Example Sentences

He broke three of her ribs with an umbrella and on another occasion hit her with a red-hot poker.

It would have gone right through the Melbourne or the Brisbane like a red-hot poker through a board.

He had just thrown the stick upon the floor with which he had been beating her, and was drawing from the stove a red-hot poker.

And perhaps, after all, the red-hot poker business is rather stale at the end of the Nineteenth Century!

The red-hot-poker grows stiff and straight, but the ragged sailor goes uncombed and untidy still.

Sausages, property red-hot poker, costume of motley, slippers and spectacle case.

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