hot as Hades
Unbearably, infernally warm
Hot as Hades means extremely hot, usually describing oppressive weather or stifling environments.
Hades is the Greek underworld, imagined as a realm of fire and heat.
The phrase is milder and more old-fashioned than hot as hell, which carries the same meaning: It was hot as Hades in that attic.
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- burning upIntensely overheated
- heat waveExtended extreme warmth
- TartarusDeepest realm of punishment
- river StyxUnderworld's boundary waters
heat · boiling · Styx · inferno · sweltering · fiery · blistering · Cerberus · intense · Charon · underworld · shades · Erebus · sunburn · summer heat · sizzling · blazing sun · furnace
temperature extremity
hot as Hadescold as ice
Extremely unfeeling or aloof
freezing cold · frigid · bitter cold · arctic · cold as a witch's tit