hot water is a noun meaning "a dangerous or distressing predicament". It carries one recorded sense.
a dangerous or distressing predicament
“his views on race got him into political hot water”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hot water come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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