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Iʹll make the place too hot to hold him. (See Talus.)

Iʹll give it him hot and strong. Iʹll rate him most soundly and severely. Liquor very hot and strong takes one’s breath away, and is apt to choke one.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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