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- Possible origination in the early 20th century based off of the phrase ‘too hot to hold,’ referring to the difficulty in holding or touching something extremely hot
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Submitted by JokerGem on November 10, 2023
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Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to too hot to handle
too many balls in the airtoo badyou're never too old to learntoo much bed makes a dull headtoo clever by halftoo big for one's bootsto get into hot watertoo many cooks spoil the brothToo Big for Your Britchestoo young, too simple, sometimes naivetoo big for one's britchesthis too shall passwear too many hatstoo hot to hold
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