"Hot" is a situation to stay away from, as in a "hot potato," or a newspaper editor shying from a story that's "too hot to handle," because it will ruffle the wrong feathers. A "hot mess" is therefore a complicated problem that is dangerous to one's career. The rollout of the Obamacare website was a hot mess. The occupation of Iraq was a hot mess.

May 23, 2017 · Hottie is still bandied about on campus by not-quite-with-it seniors, and a hot minute is defined as “a long time.” There is life left in the cleaned-up meaning of hot mess, which has come to mean “disheveled” or “incompetent,” as in “I was a hot mess this morning before I hit the shower.” "Hot's not cool." The New York Times, 2008.

Jul 27, 2016 · A pumpkin pie can be both hot (out of the oven) and spicy (due to the common inclusion of ingredients in its recipe such as cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, mace and cloves) but is not actually piquant. Conversely, pure capsaicin is piquant, yet is not naturally accompanied by a hot temperature or spices.

Jun 15, 2020 · Ooh ooh, ooh ooh Ooh ooh, ooh ooh You say you love me, I say you crazy We're nothing more than friends You're not my lover, more like a brother I known you since we were like ten, yeah Don't mess it up, talking that shit Only gonna push me away, that's it When you say you love me, that make me crazy Here we go again it says: "Don't mess it up".

Aug 30, 2016 · To me the word implies a kind of clumsy dull-wittedness that comes from being sleepy, hot and bothered or drunk; not necessarily someone who is permanently stupid. I'd also like to suggest a couple of euphemistic ones: hooligan - could be someone who makes a mess through aggressive, careless, or destructive play, or some wild abandon. "will you ...

Jan 9, 2019 · This particular behavior is known from the zooligical sciences and accurately describes the "not to mess with" signal. From Encyclopaedia Britannica online, emphasis added: Aposematic mechanism, biological means by which a dangerous, or noxious, organism advertises its dangerous nature to potential predators.

Sep 30, 2014 · "Hot mess" meaning and etymology. 4. Phrase meaning "North, but not directly North, from here" 5. Meaning ...

Sep 17, 2016 · The root of mess is the Old French mes, "portion of food" (cf. modern French mets), drawn from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send" and "to put" (cf. modern French mettre), the original sense being "a course of a meal put on the table"; cfr. also the modern Italian portata with the same meaning, past participle of portare, to bring. This ...

In my experience, referring to someone in an organization as "chief cook and bottle washer" has multiple possible meanings: person has a wide variety of duties in the organization person is very,

Wayne Gretzky appears to be the earliest attributed source of this particular expression, although two older sports-related expression say much the same thing: "You can't score if you don't shoot" and "You can't hit the ball if you don't swing."