IN HOT WATER

Definition: IN HOT WATER

IN HOT WATER

1. (Fig.), in trouble; in difficulties. [Colloq.] Syn: Burning; fiery; fervid; glowing; eager; animated; brisk; vehement; precipitate; violent; furious; ardent; fervent; impetuous; irascible; passionate; hasty; excitable.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Difficulty

Under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape; Noun: in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood.

Discord

At odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.

Crosswords: IN HOT WATER

Humans are like tea bags. They never realize their strength until they are put in hot water. (references; author: unknown)

Charlie in Hot Water (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Russian poster: Series "One Must Live Cleanly"; Wash your dishes in hot water..., cover your dining table...]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

In hot water. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Wash the sheets and blankets on your bed each week in hot water. (references)

Keep stuffed toys out of the bed or wash the toys weekly in hot water. (references)

Encase your pillow in a special dust-proof cover* or wash the pillow each week in hot water. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "IN HOT WATER": be in hot water ♦ rinsing in hot water. Additional references.

Hebrew 

�"�'על�" (rinsing in hot water, scalding, scouring). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

湯煎 (warming something by immersion in hot water). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ゆせ�" (fee for public bath, warming something by immersion in hot water). (various references)

Pig Latin

inay othay aterway

Romanian

fi într-o încurcãturã mare (be at a nonplus, be in hot water). (various references)

Spanish

estar metido en dificultades (be in hot water). (various references)

Turkish

gözden düşmüş olmak (be in hot water), başı dertte olmak (be in a bind, be in hot water, be in queer street, be in the soup). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: anorthite.

-2 letters: antihero, thionate.

-3 letters: another, hairnet, inearth, intreat, iterant, nattier, nitrate, tawnier, tertian, thorite, tinware, tritone, whatnot, whitter, writhen, written.

-4 letters: anther, aroint, atoner, attire, attorn, ethion, hatter, heriot, hernia, heroin, hinter, hitter, hornet, hotter, intort, natter, norite, notate, nother, orient, ornate, ratine, ration, ratite, ratten, ratton, retain, retina, retint, rotate, rotten, thawer.

+3 letters: mouthwatering.

+4 letters: weatherization.

+5 letters: mouthwateringly, weatherizations.