Etymology
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"Hot" items are stolen goods.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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too hot to hold someone
- (idiomatic, British) A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed.
1901, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles[1], page 18:"He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever."