in hot water
Example Sentences
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Videogame stocks have been in hot water recently.
From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026
It wouldn’t be the last time that a regrettable decision about spilling on NBA players would land Jones in hot water.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
But with many months to go before ballots are cast, Ugarte is already in hot water with the city’s Ethics Commission.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
At times the choices have landed the Bank in hot water.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2025
Whenever Otto’s bottle went cold, I carried it to the water boiler my mom used to make tea, bathing it in hot water until it was body temperature.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
