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white heat

noun

  1. a stage of intense activity, excitement, feeling, etc.:

    The sales campaign is at white heat.

  2. an intense heat at which a substance glows with white light.


white heat

noun

  1. intense heat or a very high temperature, characterized by emission of white light
  2. informal.
    a state of intense excitement or activity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of white heat1

First recorded in 1700–10
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Under the white heat of Sunday at The Open, they had a better ball of 59.

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Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, he came to power as the Sixties began to swing, promising to forge a new Britain in the "white heat of technology".

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“Fatherland,” written in a white heat for this election season, is defending democracy from the stage.

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And we're in the white heat of a by-election where differences are put under the microscope.

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But it's worth remembering that the meeting was March 21 to 22, right in the white heat of the crisis triggered by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank only days before.

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