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hot as hell's hinges en · ADJ
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(colloquial, mildly, not-comparable, qualifier:simile, vulgar) Hot as hell, extremely hot.
[…] a herb mixture that […] is remembered as being "hot as hell's hinges" and "mighty powerful."
1977, Robert R. Madden, T. Russell Jones, Mountain Home: The Walker Family Farmstead, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, page 31:It's hot as hell's hinges most of the year and boring all the time. Dead flat and covered with knee-high greasewood as far as the eye can see. I've crossed it a couple of times by rail, but it must have been a pisser to cross[…]
2012 November 14, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Deadly Flood, Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN:"The Spider tried to pass her off as a virgin, and Vivian's hot as hell's hinges about that. She's-" "Is she pretty?" "There's some who'd say so," Bertha said grudgingly.
1997 December 1, Lois Battle, Storyville, Penguin, →ISBN, page 107:It was as hot as hell's hinges and the work was hard and long. Stacking green lumber right off the saw gives one a lot of time to dwell on what he really wants to do with his life.
1998, Buck Rish, Sandbridge: Saga of an American Doctor, Buck Rish, →ISBN, page 27: