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in hot water

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in hot water
in a difficult situation in which you are likely to be punished. Those e-mails complaining about your boss can land you in hot water.
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When I got home I undressed and rubbed myself down with whisky, put my feet in hot water and a mustard-plaster on my chest, had a basin of gruel and a glass of hot brandy-and-water, tallowed my nose, and went to bed.
The breakfast began with three bowls of excellent soup, thanks to the liquefaction in hot water of those precious cakes of Liebig, prepared from the best parts of the ruminants of the Pampas.
Bacon could be eaten raw on a pinch, and flour, stirred in hot water, could keep men going.
 
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