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hot and bothered
Idioms and Phrases
In a state of agitated excitement, flustered, as in She was all hot and bothered before her big opening . [c. 1920]Example Sentences
That kind of fantasy gets certain people hot and bothered: Maybe we can get rid of democracy just by saying so!
That just seemed to make him more hot and bothered.
A couple of defeats in Euro 2024 warm-up games has got plenty of fans all hot and bothered over Scotland's prospects at Euro 2024.
Back in the 1850s the new study of thermodynamics—how, in part, temperature affects the way objects behave—had physicists hot and bothered.
On the one hand, it's easy to imagine dogs getting just as hot and bothered as people do - lashing out in the only way they know how.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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