hot as hell
Unbearably high temperature
Hot as hell describes extreme heat, whether literal or figurative.
The temperature outside might be hot as hell, or someone's temper might run hot as hell.
The phrase uses hell's traditional association with fire and torment as the ultimate standard of heat.
Like similar constructions—cold as hell, funny as hell—it functions as an intensifier, with hell serving less as a literal comparison than as emphatic punctuation.
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
- heat waveExtended extreme warmth
- scaldingExtremely hot, burning
- boilingLiquid vaporization temperature
- burning upIntensely overheated
incandescent · sulfurous · glowing · hellfire · burning · fiery · lake of fire · grilling · scorching · purgatory · torrid · inferno · stewing · seething · roasting · devilish · baking · blazing
hot as hellcold as ice
Extremely unfeeling or aloof
freezing cold · frigid · freezing · ice cold · bitter cold
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