be in into hot water

Meaning

1. be in / get into hot water

   to be in or get into trouble

In the movies · 40

• Is the hot water still not working?Don't Worry Darling2022
• There's no more hot water, Sylvia.Shine1996
• And that is the bathroom, with hot water.The Sisters Brothers2018
• No coal, no hot water, no bathroom.Pollock2000
• ...and mull things over in the hot water.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005
• They used up all the hot water.Avengers: Age of Ultron2015
• We got the forks, knives, hot water...United 932006
• No, not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup.Three Kings1999

Learn it in full scenes

• United 932006
  • Passengers Board United 93
  • The FAA Morning Briefing
  • A Controller Reports a Possible Hijack

From the same entry

• be hot to trot
• go hot and cold
• go like hot cakes
• hot and bothered
• hot on heels
• hot on tracks
• hot under the collar
• in hot pursuit
• not so hot
• blow hot and cold
• like a cat on hot bricks
• on heels