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in heat
Idioms and Phrases
In a state of sexual excitement immediately preceding ovulation. For example, Our cat's in heat so we have to keep her inside . This expression applies to most female mammals and indicates the period when the animal is fertile and most receptive to mating. [Mid-1700s]Example Sentences
Kilmer was pictured with Al Pacino at a live reading of Shakespeare's Live Read of The Merchant Of Venice in 2019, more than two decades after starring together in Heat.
Of course, this gendered insult was nothing new—the ancient Greeks regularly insulted women as dogs in heat—but the 1990s brought what Yarrow calls an unprecedented epidemic of b***hification.
And in “Heat,” Robert De Niro’s crew steals more than $1 million in bearer bonds from an armored van, ignoring the loose cash in the vehicle.
Betts said it sounded like a cat in heat or in labor, so she walked over to take a look.
She checked in with her sister, who once worked at an animal shelter, and learned that cats that yowled were either in distress, in heat or lost.
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