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hot and bothered

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hot and bothered 
1. Fig. excited; anxious. Now don't get hot and bothered. Take it easy. John is hot and bothered about the tax increase.
2. Fig. amorous; interested in romance or sex. John gets hot and bothered whenever Mary comes into the room. The dog seems hot and bothered. I think it's that time of the year again.
See also: and, bother, hot

(all) hot and bothered  (informal)
worried or angry, and sometimes physically hot Dad gets all hot and bothered if someone parks in his parking space.
See also: and, bother, hot

hot and bothered
angry and excited Dad gets all hot and bothered if someone parks in his parking space.
See also: and, bother, hot


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But Californians ought to be hot and bothered, because all of those calamities -- and possibly some we haven't even thought of -- could be in store for 2007.
Perhaps Allen's completion of a multimedia opus several years in the making converged with a broadly felt need for a practice that, though inconsistent, is also genuinely unpredictable; maybe LA was finally ready for some hot and bothered grit with hints of Ed Kienholz's and Wallace Berman's complicated humanity and politics.
It wasn't the restriction on premarital sex and adultery that got the BCCT hot and bothered.
 
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