Brewer's: Hot

I'll make the place too hot to hold him. (See Talus.)

I'll give it him hot and strong.
I'll rate him most soundly and severely. Liquor very hot and strong takes one's breath away, and is apt to choke one.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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