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the day air turns to soup and your shirt becomes a regret you wear
means So oppressively hot and humid that you feel uncomfortably overheated, often to the point of sweating.
from From the Old English 'sweltan,' meaning to die or perish — the same dark root that gives us 'swelter.' To swelter once meant to faint or languish from heat, as if the warmth itself were doing you in. The frequentative form 'sweltering' keeps that sense of slow, ongoing oppression, and it's a distant cousin of 'sultry,' which traveled a parallel path from the same heat-soaked family of words.
- old root
- From 'swelter,' once meaning to faint or die
- body limit
- 35°C wet-bulb heat can kill within hours
- slang twin
- 'Dog days' named after star Sirius rising
- heat illusion
- Humidity makes you feel hotter than the thermometer
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