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Hot water
Hot water noun - A dangerous or distressing predicament.
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- It's more complicated than that: She was hallucinating that her abusive uncle had told her to stand under the boiling hot water and count to 10,000, since moving into his house meant she stopped getting treatment for her Hinamizawa Syndrome.
- He relied on some underhanded tactics, weaseling out of losing the belt by count-outs or Jimmy Hart lending a hand when Honky got into hot water.
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