too hot to hold in English

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{
  "etymology_text": "\"Hot\" items are stolen goods.",
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    {
      "form": "too hot to hold someone",
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          "ref": "1901, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, page 18",
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        "A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed."
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        "(idiomatic, British) A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed."
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}

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{
  "etymology_text": "\"Hot\" items are stolen goods.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "too hot to hold someone",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adjective",
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      },
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    }
  ],
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, British) A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed."
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
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  "word": "too hot to hold"
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"too hot to hold" meaning in English

Adjective