HOT WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hot water mean? 

• HOT WATER (noun)
  The noun HOT WATER has 1 sense:

1. a dangerous or distressing predicament

  Familiarity information: HOT WATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOT WATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dangerous or distressing predicament

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

his views on race got him into political hot water

Hypernyms ("hot water" is a kind of...):

plight; predicament; quandary (a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one)

 Context examples 

Multiple lines of evidence from Cassini indicate that hydrothermal activity — hot water interacting chemically with rock — is taking place on the seafloor.

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

He had no fire that night, nor hot water, and crawled under his blanket to sleep the broken hunger-sleep.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Here’s a cigar, and the doctor has a prescription containing hot water and a lemon, which is good medicine on a night like this.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Use a separate cutting board and utensils for meats and clean them carefully with soap and hot water after use.

(Campylobacter Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

I huddled on my clothes and hurried downstairs in an exceedingly bad temper to order some hot water.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) History; when you get into the tub or shower, are you able to tell the hot water from the cold water?

(MNSI - Able to Tell Hot from Cold Water, NCI Thesaurus)

Having done the honours of his house in this hospitable manner, Mr. Peggotty went out to wash himself in a kettleful of hot water, remarking that “cold would never get his muck off”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Fortunately, the kitchen and boiler fires were still alive, and there was no lack of hot water.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Systematic review protocols—a method used to search for and analyze relevant data—allowed researchers to analyze thousands of studies linking water-based passive body heating, or bathing and showering with warm/hot water, with improved sleep quality.

(Bathing 90 minutes before bedtime can improve sleep quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An extensive, four-year analysis of data from the spacecraft, computer simulations and laboratory experiments led researchers to the conclusion the tiny grains most likely form when hot water containing dissolved minerals from the moon's rocky interior travels upward, coming into contact with cooler water.

(Spacecraft Data Suggest Saturn Moon's Ocean May Harbor Hydrothermal Activity, NASA)