hot as blazes
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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.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
It was hot as blazes, as it is wont to be in Charlottesville in August.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2018
It was hot as blazes outside—humid, too, and inside our house, all the air conditioners hummed in the windows.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
It was only April, but it was already hot as blazes.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
It’ll be hot down there—as hot as blazes, and if we have to go into action, and use the big guns, why being inside of the turrets will be worse than being in a teakettle.”
From Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam by Webster, Frank V.
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