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red-hot

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1. red-hot - Noun

2. red-hot - Adjective

3. red-hot - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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red hot

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Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate. Charles Spurgeon

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner. Victor Hugo

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you. Diogenes of Sinope

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein

When there is on a red-hot hoe, it is not grasped. Lamba Proverb

When there is on a red-hot hoe, it is not grasped. Bantu Proverb

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