white heat
Frequency: 4.51.2 per million words
often figurative, meaning intense activity or emotion
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Examples (10)
- Everything he did was at white heat and lightning speed.
- The blacksmith waited until the iron reached white heat before forging it.
- She worked at white heat to finish the report before the morning deadline.
- The debate over the new policy soon reached a white heat in the chamber.
- Great art is often produced in the white heat of intense emotion.
- The technological revolution was forged in the white heat of scientific discovery.
- His resentment had built up to a white heat over several months.
- The newsroom was at white heat as the election results started coming in.
- You need to maintain that white heat of ambition to succeed in this industry.
- The furnace glowed with white heat, illuminating the dark workshop.