blacktop

(as) hot as highway blacktop

Extremely hot in temperature. Geez, it's hot as highway blacktop today—we really need to stay in the shade. I hate working in the theme park during the summer because the costumes they make us wear get as hot as highway blacktop. It's hot as highway blacktop in here! Why don't you have the air conditioner on?

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as hot as highway blacktop

Scorching. A typical summer day in the Deep South.

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