white-heat

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noun

a stage of intense activity, excitement, feeling, etc.: The sales campaign is at white heat.

an intense heat at which a substance glows with white light.

Origin:
1700–10

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white heat

—n
1.	intense heat or a very high temperature, characterized by emission of white light
2.	informal a state of intense excitement or activity

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