English · Word pair Candidate

hot and heavy

Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

Intense.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Mật thiết

Machine-translated — suggest a fix

Where it’s used: Used Widespread English

Examples

Sledgehammers were usually wielded by the apprentice; it was hot and heavy work.

Not until the sun comes hot and heavy on it.

British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Figurative class: Metaphor (PIE-English corpus, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-31).

Common questions

What does “hot and heavy” mean?

Intense.

Is “hot and heavy” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.

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