English
Etymology
hot|Hot items are stolen goods.
Idiom
too hot to hold
- UK A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed.
#:1901, 2006, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, p 18
#:: "He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever."
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