Dear winter-ravaged word-lovers: DARE is here with a friendly reminder that it won’t be long—mere months!—before we’re melting under the oppressive, unrelenting summer sun. To help you prepare, we’ve compiled some of the many expressions people around the country use to complain about the heat:
Hot enough to choke a horse
Hot as Billy Hell
Hotter than blixen
Hot as Hades.
Hot as (or hotter than) blue blazes
Hot enough to melt clabber
Hot as a pot of collards
Hotter than Dutch love
Hot as a tater
Hot as election day
Hot as cotton
Hot enough to roast a lizard
Hot enough to scald a loon
Hotter than the hubs of hell