Hot as blazes
adjective phrase
Very hot indeed ( first form 1849+, second 1912+)
Also, hot as hell. Extremely warm, as in It was hot as blazes in that room, or I’m hot as hell and would love a cold shower. The first of these hyperbolic similes dates from the mid-1800s, the second from the early 1900s.
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