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Hotter than a pistol

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Very hot. comparative-only

    ""Warm day out there on the highway. . . . It's only June. By the Fourth it'll be hotter than a pistol around here.""

  2. 2
    Exceptionally popular, productive, or marketable. Canada, US, comparative-only, idiomatic

    ""Carl Perkins and I were in Amory, Mississippi, with Elvis. Now Elvis, of course, was hotter than a pistol. He had his second record out.""

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