What is the meaning of To get into hot soup?

Answer 1

"To get into hot soup" is an old English expression that simply means to get into trouble. One possible origin is from times when it was common to pour hot liquids out of an upper floor window on intruders. A pot of soup would often have been on the stove in those days so it could have been a likely item to grab for such a purpose.

A rather similar old English expression is "Out of the frying pan, into the fire" which means that in rushing to get out of trouble you may find yourself in some other worse trouble. This one is attributed to Sir Thomas Moore in his book "Confutacyon of Tyndales answere" which was published in two parts in 1532 & 1533. In the book Moore says William Tyndale "featly conuayed himself out of the frying panne fayre into the fyre." Moore wrote prohetically it turns out - Tyndale was later, in 1536, burned at the stake (after strangulation) for translating the New Testament of The Bible into English, which Cardinal Wolsey condemned as a heretic act. Moore did not get to appreciate the prophetic nature of his words however: Moore was beheaded in 1535.

Answer 2

The expression is to get or to be in hot water, meaning to be in trouble with the authorities. A different expression, In the soup means in great difficulties, like someone who has fallen overboard ( from the soup, a slang word for the water around a boat).

Answer 3

that totally depends on how much you heat it up.

Answer 4

use a thermometer to see, unless you mean theoretical soup in which case use theoreticalmometer. make sure not to break it as reality will leak in and the soup will not taste good any more