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The universal apology for every kitchen skill you don't have.
means To be in trouble, especially the kind brought on by your own doing.
from The phrase dates back centuries, with early uses already treating hot water as a metaphor for danger or distress — possibly drawing on the image of being scalded, or of a pot boiling over into a mess you now have to deal with. By the 1500s it was established English idiom, long before it ever had to apologize for store-bought bread.
- freezes faster
- Hot water can outrace cold water freezing, oddly
- weighs less
- Heated water is slightly less dense than cold
- idiom origin
- 16th century slang for being in serious trouble
- tea myth
- Fresh boil matters more than temperature for flavor