It’s too hot (Expressions about the heat) (Ep.17)

Episode Description: Kevin talks about a few English expressions you can use about the heat. 

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Here in Japan, where I live, it has been incredibly hot. And watching the news, it seems that Japan is not alone. 

So today I thought I would go over a few expressions that you can use when talking about the heat.

One thing you can say is that ‘It is scorching out here’. Or sometimes…”It is a scorcher today”. Scorch is a verb and it means to burn the surface of something. Like scorching a creme brûlée. Or ’The houses were scorched by the blast’.  But you can use this to describe the weather. Obviously it is an exaggeration, but we say it sometimes. Scorching or scorcher are only used to refer to the natural outside temperature. So you can’t use it if it is hot because someone is blasting the heat inside a building.

Another expression is, ‘I am sweating bullets’.  This doesn’t mean that bullets are literally coming out of your skin, rather it is referring to the size of your sweat drops. You are sweating so much that the size of the sweat drops are like bullets.

Another expression is, “I am sweating like a pig”..and you can use this when…well, you are sweating a lot. I have heard that pigs don’t actually sweat though, so I am not sure if this expression is actually accurate or not.

Let’s see… you can also make comparisons, like ‘It feels like a sauna”…or ‘It’s like an oven outside’.

You can also say..”You can/could fry an egg on the sidewalk..”

Yeah, okay, I don’t want to overload you with too many expressions. But I hope you have found one that you like and will try using one of these expressions.

Have a great day! Stay cool.