hot-water

hot water

noun Informal.
trouble; a predicament: His skipping classes will get him into real hot water when exam time comes.

Origin:
1530–40

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hot water

noun
a dangerous or distressing predicament; "his views on race got him into political hot water" 
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Hot-water is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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