Hot Water

Definition: Hot Water

Hot Water

Noun

1. A dangerous or distressing predicament; "his views on race got him into political hot water".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

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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.

Scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position.

Discord

Get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl; kick up a row, kick up a dust; turn the house out of window.

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.

Furnace

Oil burner, gas burner, Franklin stove, pot-bellied stove; wood-burning stove; central heating, steam heat, hot water heat, gas heat, forced hot air, electric heat, heat pump; solar heat, convective heat.

Pain

Annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener; bore, bother, pother, hot water, "sea of troubles", hornet's nest, plague, pest.

Crosswords: Hot Water

Why couldn't you have supplied some hot water bottles or an electrically heated suit (Where Eagles Dare; writing credit: Alistair MacLean;)

Get some hot water! Get some disinfectant (A Charlie Brown Christmas; writing credit: Charles M. Schulz)

Yeah, some people filter hot water through it and drink it. (Beverly Hills Cop; writing credit: Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie Jr.)

Well, no woman ever died from that. A tub of hot water and I'll be back where I was before - with just another filthy memory (C'era una volta il West; writing credit: Dario Argento; Bernardo Bertolucci)

We could go to the Bronze and sneak in our own teabags and ask for hot water. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water. (references; author: unknown)

The best way to keep your kids out of hot water is to put some dishes in it. (references; author: unknown)

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)

Hot Water (1946)

Constant Hot Water (1923)

Hot Water (1978)

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Books

• Mini-meal cookbook : tasty recipes especially created for hamburger makers, mini-deep fryers, instant hot water heaters, and small toaster-broiler overs (reference)

• Amazing Home Remedy: The Natural Hot Water Washing Method for Relief from Hemorrhoid (reference)

• Hot water sailor, 1912-1962 ; &, Landlubber ho! 1963-1980 (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• In-Sink-Erator GN-3S 1/2-Gallon Instant Hot Water Dispenser (reference)

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U. S. Army Hospital Number 30, Royat, France. : Bathroom and latrine, showing hot water heater and shower baths. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

Dr. Grover Cleveland and "Dr. German" look at man who has his feet in tub of hot water. Credit: Library of Congress.

In hot water. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Ma came in with wet hands, and her palms puckered and bloated from hot water and soap

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Health

Use the hot water (130o F) cycle. (references)

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

We cleaned out the bite with soap, hot water, and a disinfectant. (references)

Business

The energy consumption in the residential and tertiary sector in Greece represents an increase of around 7 percent per year. Heating is the major energy consumption part of the sector, around 52-58%, followed by lighting 4-11%, cooking 8-13%, hot water 6-9%, air conditioning 16%, domestic appliances 5%, etc. Despite current uncertainties in the Greek economy, the expected annual growth of the total market for new buildings is estimated to be at a real rate of around 10% per annum during the period of 1999-2002. Since imports supply a large percent of the EETE market, very good opportunities exist for foreign manufacturers of EETE equipment needed for new buildings. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

Approximately, 30+ACU- of the hot water supplied to houses and public buildings is used inefficiently or simply wasted. (references)

Bulgaria

District heating companies can be upgraded to supply both electricity, up to 35 megawatts, and steam and/or hot water, through cogeneration technology. (references)

Kazakhstan

Forty-six of the country's 54 coal/petroleum-fired plants supply electricity, heating, and hot water to nearby residences and industries during the winter. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

Akbar stated that the detective branch repeatedly subjected him to electric shock, poured hot water mixed with powdered chilies (cayenne pepper) into his nose, and threatened to kill him if he did not confess. (references)

Trade

Hungary

The agreement affects products of seven industrial areas (machinery, electrical safety, electromagnetic compatibility, gas appliances, medicinal products for human use (GLP, GMP), hot water boilers, and medical devices). (references)

Germany

Currently, over 20 of the 22 proposed and planned EU directives have been adopted: low voltage/ electrical safety, toys, simple pressure vessels, construction products, electro-magnetic compatibilty, gas appliances, personal protective equipment, machinery, medical devices, non-automatic weighing machines, type approval of telecommunications terminal equipment, medical devices, hot water boilers, lifts and recreational crafts. (references)

Travel

Ukraine

In smaller towns hot water is supplied only on by-hour basis, or not supplied at all. (references)

Nigeria

Air conditioning and hot water are often a problem in hotels, in addition to the frequent breakdown of elevators. (references)

Lithuania

Despite recent improvements, hot water may not always be available through municipal district heating systems; major apartment renovations should include installation of hot water heaters. (references)

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Expressions using "hot water": be in hot water ♦ get into hot water ♦ hot water plant ♦ In hot water ♦ rinsing in hot water. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏ورطة (box, deadlock, dilemma, entanglement, fix, hole, jam, maw, mess, pickle, plight, predicament, quagmire, quandary, stalemate). (various references)

Czech

dostat se do nesnází (get into hot water). (various references)

Danish

ved naturlig cirkulation i varmtvandsanlaeg trykker det afkoelede vand det varme,lettere vand op i stigroeret (cooled water forces the lighter, hot water up into the riser, in gravity heating the heavier), varmtvands-varmefiksering (equipment for shaping with water, hot water thermo-setting machine), varmtvandslagring i kunstig sø (storage of hot water in artifical lakes), varmfugte (to moisten with hot water), varmelagring i kunstig sø (storage of hot water in artifical lakes), varmedunk (hot water bottle, hot-water bottle). (various references)

Dutch

warmwateropslag in kunstmatige meren (storage of hot water in artifical lakes), warmwaterkruik (hot water bottle, hot-water bottle), warm bevochtigen (to moisten with hot water), bij warmwaterverwarming wordt het lichtere warme water door het zwaardere afgekoelde water in de stijgleiding omhooggestuwd (cooled water forces the lighter, hot water up into the riser, in gravity heating the heavier), beddekruik (hot water bottle, hot-water bottle). (various references)

Finnish

kuuman veden varastointi tekojärveen (storage of hot water in artifical lakes), kuumalla vedellä tehtävä termofikseeraus (equipment for shaping with water, hot water thermo-setting machine), kuumaa vettä käyttävä termofikseerauslaitteisto (equipment for shaping with water, hot water thermo-setting machine). (various references)

French

eau chaude � basse température. (various references)

German

Warmwasser. (various references)

Greek 

θερμό νερό. (various references)

Hebrew 

צר�" צרור�" (serious trouble). (various references)

Hungarian

kutyaszorító (hot trouble). (various references)

Italian

inumidire a caldo (to moisten with hot water), con il riscaldamento a gravit� l'acqua pesante raffreddata spinge in alto l'acqua leggera riscaldata nella colonna ascendente (cooled water forces the lighter, hot water up into the riser, in gravity heating the heavier), borsa per acqua calda (hot water bottle, hot-water bottle), accumulo di acqua calda in laghi artificiali (storage of hot water in artifical lakes). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

湯 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おゆ (bath), さしゆ, ゆ (at last, beyond doubt, increasingly, more and more). (various references)

Manx

boteil cheh (hot water bottle). (various references)

Pig Latin

othay aterway.(various references)

Portuguese

�gua quente, água aquecida a baixa temperatura. (various references)

Quechua

yaku-q'ñonita. (various references)

Romanian

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

Spanish

agua caliente. (various references)

Swedish

varmvatten. (various references)

Thai

ความยุ่งยาก (hassle, labyrinth, stickler). (various references)

Turkish

sıcak su ile yapılan, sıcak su. (various references)

a-kum. (various references)

caldariam, calida, calidam, calidas. (various references)

Misspellings

"Hot Water" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hotwater. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hatter, hotter, rotate, thawer, threat, throat, thwart, tother, trowth, watter, wreath.

-3 letters: earth, hater, heart, oater, orate, other, ottar, otter, rathe, rotte, rowth, tarot, tater, tawer, tetra, theta, thraw, threw, throe, throw, torah, torte, toter, tower, treat, troth, water, wheat, whore, whort, worth, wrath, wrote, wroth.

-4 letters: aero, eath, haet, hare, hart, hate.

+2 letters: watchtower.

+3 letters: watchtowers, whitethroat.

+4 letters: airworthiest, whitethroats, yellowthroat.

+5 letters: mouthwatering, northeastward, northwestward, southeastward, southwestward, yellowthroats.