too hot to hold

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Meaning: (idiomatic,British)A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed.1901, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,The Hound of the Baskervilles‎[1], page18:"He made Englandtoo hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever."

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