white heat

noun

1. a stage of intense activity, excitement, feeling, etc..

   The sales campaign is at white heat.

2. an intense heat at which a substance glows with white light.

white heat

noun

1. intense heat or a very high temperature, characterized by emission of white light

2. informal,  a state of intense excitement or activity

Word History and Origins

Origin of white heat¹

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

In the white heat of salesmanship, an L.A. real estate agent is said to have stuck oranges on Joshua trees and sold plots as groves.

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Under the white heat of Sunday at The Open, they had a better ball of 59.

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Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, he came to power as the Sixties began to swing, promising to forge a new Britain in the "white heat of technology".

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“Fatherland,” written in a white heat for this election season, is defending democracy from the stage.

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And we're in the white heat of a by-election where differences are put under the microscope.

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