WAYS TO SAY "VERY HOT" (hot can also mean sexy)

Hello ladies and gentlemen. The weather is lovely and warm, finally, and here's what we Brits say 👇😎🇬🇧

It is .... outside (very hot: most of these are rather informal in use and are used to really exaggerate... as we Brits do)

- baking

- boiling

- roasting

- sweltering

- scorching ( a scorcher)

- sizzling (like when frying hot food)

- I spent the day under the umbrella because it was baking and i needed to protect my sensitive bald head. 👴

- I sat all day under the scorching sun... hence why i now look like a dried grape.

- The weather forecast says tomorrow will be an absolute scorcher. So it's bikini time!!! - Yeah, I heard it's going to be sweltering tomorrow, blin!

Collocations: ☀☀☀

- Blisteringly hot

- Scorching hot (compound adj)

- under the blazing sun (very hot and bright sun)

- Under the sizzling sun

We have these words (adjectives):

- humid (when the weather is hot with water vapour in the air: the standard word)

- sticky (when it's a very humid day - like today in Moscow)

- sultry (hot and humid)

- muggy (unpleasantly hot and humid; semi-formal)

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