"not so hot" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "not so hot (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "\"How are you feeling?\" / \"Not so hot.\""
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          "text": "He wasn't feeling so hot, so he went home early."
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        {
          "text": "His later work was not so hot."
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        "Not very good."
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        "(informal) Not very good."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, so, hot."
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      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒt"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "word": "not-so-hot"
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  "word": "not so hot"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "\"How are you feeling?\" / \"Not so hot.\""
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        {
          "text": "He wasn't feeling so hot, so he went home early."
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        {
          "text": "His later work was not so hot."
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        "Not very good."
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        "(informal) Not very good."
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    {
      "word": "not-so-hot"
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  "word": "not so hot"
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