Thermometer Phrases

Phrases

• All hot and bothered
• As cold as a well digger's arse
• As cold as a witch's tit
• As cold as any stone
• As cold as blue blazes
• As cold as charity
• As cold as ice
• As hot as Hades
• As hot as blue blazes
• Blow hot and cold
• Break out in a cold sweat
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Catch a cold
• Catch your death of cold
• Cold Cold Heart (Hank Williams song)
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Cold Turkey (John Lennon song)
• Cold calling
• Cold comfort
• Cold day in Hell
• Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• Cold feet
• Cold fish
• Cold hands warm heart
• Cold light of day
• Cold meat
• Cold shoulder
• Cold sober
• Cold sweat
• Cold turkey
• Come in from the cold
• Come out in a cold sweat
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Don't put a cold in your pocket! - Use Kleenex Tissues (Kleenex Tissues advertising slogan)
• Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg song)
• Drop it like a hot potato
• Feed a cold and starve a fever
• Feed the meter
• Full of bull (talking hot air)
• Get into hot water
• Hard, cold cash
• Hot Lips Houlihan (Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit))
• Hot Plate (Nickname of basketball player John Sam Williams)
• Hot Rod (Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley)
• Hot air
• Hot and bothered
• Hot and heavy
• Hot button issue
• Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink (Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Hot desking
• Hot diggety dog
• Hot enough for you?
• Hot mess
• Hot money
• Hot n Cold (Katy Perry song)
• Hot off the press
• Hot on the trail

• Hot on your heels
• Hot potato
• Hot property
• Hot pursuit
• Hot shot
• Hot stuff
• Hot swap
• Hot tempered
• Hot ticket
• Hot tip
• Hot to trot
• Hot topic
• Hot under the collar
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• Ice cold
• In a cold sweat
• In cold blood
• In cold storage
• In hot water
• Is it hot in here or is it me? (Typically used by menopausal women having a hot flush)
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum (BBC comedy television series)
• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen (the opening line of Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• It was a cold and frosty morning
• It's too cold to snow
• Leave out in the cold
• Leave someone cold
• Left out in the cold
• Like a cat on a hot coals
• Like a cat on a hot tin roof
• Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)
• Meter maid
• My blood ran cold
• Out cold
• Out in the cold
• Piping hot
• Potatoes in the mould (Cockney rhyming slang for cold)
• Pour cold water on
• Redd Hot (Nickname of Michael Redd)
• Revenge is a dish best served cold
• Running a temperature
• Selling like hot cakes
• Shit hot
• Smoking hot
• Some Like It Hot (Jack Lemmon / Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe movie)
• Starve a cold, feed a fever
• Stone cold sober
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Take a cold hard look
• Taters (Cockney rhyming slang for cold)
• The Cold War
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (John Le Carre novel)
• The dogs kids love to bite (Armour Hot Dogs advertising slogan)
• The long, hot summer
• Throw cold water on
• Too hot to handle
• We answer to a higher authority (Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan)
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)