hot water
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n.
Trouble; difficulty: is in political hot water; got into hot water over the car deal.
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noun
- The condition of being in need of immediate assistance: distress, exigence, exigency, trouble. See help/harm/harmless.
- A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition: box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, jam, plight1, predicament, quagmire, scrape, soup, trouble. Informal bind, pickle, spot. See easy/hard.
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Trouble or difficulty, as in She's deep in political hot water, or We got in hot water over the car deal, or He's finally paid his tuition and is out of hot water with the school. This metaphoric term alludes to water hot enough to burn one. [First half of 1500s] Also see
in trouble with.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a dangerous or distressing predicament
| Wikipedia: Hot Water |
This article is about the P.G. Wodehouse novel. For a list of films with this name, see Hot Water (film). For the Jimmy Buffett album, see Hot Water (album).
Hot Water is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published on August 17, 1932, in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York.
The story takes place at the Chateau Blissac, Brittany, and recounts the various romantic and criminal goings-on there during a house party, hosted by the Vicomte Blissac. It contains a mixture of romance, intrigue and Wodehouse's brand of humour.
Plot outline
The story's central character is Packy Franklyn, an American millionaire and sportsman. He is engaged to Lady Beatrice Bracken and is staying in England. A chance meeting with the great Dry legislator, Senator Ambrose Opal, leads to all hell breaking loose when a letter written by the Senator to his bootlegger is used as a tool for blackmail. The book also features Gordon "Oily" Carlisle and Gertie, who reappears in the book Cocktail Time, as well as Soup Slattery and Jane Opal.
External links
- The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters
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