too hot to hold
English
Etymology
"Hot" items are stolen goods.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
too hot to hold someone
- (idiomatic, Britain) A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed.
- 1901, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, page 18:
- "He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever."
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