"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.

2017年5月23日 · 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.

2019年8月29日 · In slang terms, I would think of someone as a "hot mess" but I am looking for a non-slang term that perhaps does not carry (as much of) an implication of insult. Another way to describe such a person would be to think of the "Classic California blonde stereotype" where the person may be extremely attractive, have access to plenty of money, but ...

2020年6月15日 · 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".

2016年12月20日 · Thanks. Unlike the plague, "hot" also has positive connotations, so it would need to be exaggerated, e.g. "lava hot". The Velvet Fog sounded interesting, but it turns out that it was a nickname given to Mel Tormé" in honor of his high tenor and smooth vocal style", which is hardly something negative (or at least a matter of taste). –

2016年9月17日 · 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 ...

2016年8月30日 · 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 ...

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,

2013年9月13日 · While there are a number of good answers laid out already (and a few not yet mentioned), I think the 'right' answer depends on the motivations, or at least the perceived motivations of the person doing so.

2019年1月9日 · 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.