too hot to hold

adj

Etymology

"Hot" items are stolen goods.

Definitions

  1. A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed.

    • "He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever."

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