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Meaning of too hot to hold | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed.

British, idiomatic

Examples

“"He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever."”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

too much too posh to push too rich for one's blood too too Tookean tool-friendly