Okay, ah you know what?
I was out all day in the sun, it is so hot.
I mean I cannot even tell you how hard it is.
It's it's it's extremely hot, it's very hot.
You know what?
I think we should replace this expression, it's hot with some better
expressions, right?
Like I mean there are some days where you're like perspiring like I am right
now, but you have no better expression correct, but don't
worry, I've got some funny ways and some creative ways to help you say
that it is hot when you're talking about the extreme hot
weather.
Okay, what are they?
Let's have a look.
You could say it's stifling now, when do we use this phrase?
It's stifling.
The word stifling refers to feeling like you're
choking because there is not enough of air.
This happens in very humid weather.
So where I live, the weather is pretty stifling when it's you know,
in the at the peak of summer.
That's when I will say it's stifling not stifling, it's stifling.
Or you could say it's sizzling.
You know, in places like Dubai for example, it is actually sizzling.
What is this expression comes from the what sizzle?
The verb sizzle means that something is on the stuff and
it's kind of getting so hot that if you touch it, you've got to take your hand away from
it and believe me in places like that, it is actually sizzling, that's when
you use this expression or you could say it's burning which is another
expression which is another way to say that it is sizzling
now.
The other expression which is very, you know nice that you could use is
Sweltering.
Sweltering again refers to people who are living in a
human weather.
They could use this word because in this weather it's not only humid,
but you feel very sticky.
Okay?
So like I said today, I got out of the car and in two minutes I felt all sticky and I
was perspiring and it was really humid.
So for me I should have said it's sweltering
or you could say it's scorching.
Now, scorching obviously means extreme heat in some places,
whether whether weather conditions are extreme, it can be
so hot that you could simply say it's scorching, which means you can't even touch
something or you could say it's steamy.
Now, I don't know if you've seen steam rising out of anything that is being
cooked, but when steam rises up, what happens you perspire
but it's almost like you feel the heat, you can see the heat
coming up from the surface and that's practically how you sometimes feel when it
is extremely hot.
So that's when you will say it's steamy.
Now there are two expressions that I'm going to talk about them together.
You could say it's sultry or it's tropical.
Now, I don't know if you have heard about a place called the equator,
okay, the equator is somewhere you know where it is.
The hottest places where when the weather is so
hot, they're called the tropical areas of the world.
Now, you may not be living near the equator, but if the weather gets that hot, like as
if you are near the equator, you could say it's sultry or it is
tropical.
Okay, these are two different ways to say it.
This is used many times in places where people, when people travel on
vacation and in many other ways.
Okay, so these are some expressions, but I want to give you some
phrases how about saying the weather is as hot as an
oven.
We all know that we use the oven to make our food hot and the weather
can sometimes feel as hot as an oven.
Or some people use a very funny expression and say we're in the dog days of summer.
Now, I'll tell you what this expression comes from the fact that during the summer,
dogs like to kind of take a dip in the water and shake themselves out of the
water once they've taken a nice dip and that's how we feel like, right?
Like I want to sometimes just take a dip.
Why is that?
Because we are practically in the dog days of summer Or you could
say, I could fry an egg on the hood of the car.
That's true.
In some places, the weather is so hot that the surface of the hood of the
car, it's so hot that you could literally drop an egg and you could actually
make an omelet don't try it, but that could actually happen because the weather is so hard
or you could say the heat is unrelenting.
The word unrelenting means it does not give up when you,
when you don't give up, which means you don't want to stop being the way
you are.
Sometimes the weather is unrelenting, it does not stop getting hot.
And that's when you say the hate is unrelenting or you could say the
heat is getting to me it's true.
Sometimes when it's too hot it can really affect your mood.
And that's when you say the heat is getting to me, Some people say I'm
sweating like a hog.
This is like an expression.
It's a very funny expression, but people use it informally.
Don't use it like in the office if you don't have to so simply say I'm
sweating like a hog now, hogs don't really sweat.
But this is an expression that is kind of funny and people use it.
But if you want to use some more creative and funny expressions, you could say, I
want to stick my face in a deep freeze.
Believe me, I don't think anybody would disagree with me if I say something like this because
a deep freeze is the best place to want to be in when the weather is
sweltering or scorching.
So you could use this expression, some people say the heat is
about to drive me crazy.
Like I said sometimes your mood that's affected because of the heat mine does and that's
when I say, the heat is about to drive me crazy.
This weather makes me want to move up to the mountains.
It's true.
Um A lot of us do not live in places which are close to the mountains, but
when you live near the mountains, you mostly experience cool weather.
Well, some of us are not so fortunate.
That's when we can say this, whether you're in Mumbai where I live, it makes me want to
move up to the mountains.
Yeah, it's true.
Or you could say it's like getting punched in the face with a
sauna.
How many of you have had a sauna bath?
Sauna is a great experience because you know, you, you you you have this nice steamy
bath and we know the word steamy, right?
What was the word?
Steamy all about?
It was about feeling the air, the steam or the heat rise
above the surface.
So when the weather is so hot, you feel like you are literally in a
sauna which is not a good sauna.
Okay, so that's when you can say, it's like getting punched in the face with a sauna
or you could simply say it's like a furnace outside, a furnace is a
place where you, you know a furnace is a place that is used to heat to
warm up the house or a sudden area.
And if the weather is too hot, you should simply say damn,
it's really like a furnace outside.
So these are the really creative and funny expressions to say it's hot.
Believe me, if you use these expressions, your english will sound more native like because these are
really good expressions that native english speakers use.
Okay, so next time when it's hot, don't say it's hard.
I don't say it's extremely hard.
Try using any of these expressions and you will have fun with it.
Okay, I'll be back with some more lessons.
Keep learning and keep taking care of yourself.
Have a lovely day, Bye!