Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Hot

Hot as a black pudding.
—Anonymous

Hot as a coal.
—Anonymous

Hot as a pone cake.
—Anonymous

As hot as hot might be.
—Anonymous

Hot as Jove.
—Anonymous

Hot as love’s flaming climate.
—Anonymous

Hot as pepper.
—Anonymous

Hot as ten thousand suns in one.
—Anonymous

Hot as the hinges of hell.
—Anonymous

Hot as Tophet.
—Anonymous

Hot as a volcano.
—Anonymous

Hot as the devil’s kitchen.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms

Hot as the fire of the Lord out of heaven could make it.
—John Bunyan

Hot as a basted turkey.
—Will Carleton

Hot as hell-fire.
—John Dryden

Agonies as hot as flames of sulphur.
—John Ford

Hot as hate.
—Hamlin Garland

Love is as hot as pepper’d brandy.
—William King

Hot as a toast.
—John Lyly

Hot as hay harvest.
—Brian Melbancke

Hot as flame.
—Ouida

Hot as coals of glowing fire.
—William Shakespeare

Hot as gunpowder.
—William Shakespeare

Hot as molten lead.
—William Shakespeare

Hot as monkeys.
—William Shakespeare

Hot as Perseus.
—William Shakespeare

Hot as hell.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hot like Mars.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hot and close as fire.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hot as an oven.
—Old Testament

Hot as a swinked gypsy.
—Francis Thompson

Hot as Indian curry.
—Israel Zangwill