T-Rex: English has been blessed by many ways to say "I say, that is a thing that is hot". But sometimes it can be hard to remember where each expression ranks in terms of relative hotness! But check it out:
Narrator: HOT METAPHORS
Narrator: as arranged by increasing hotness
T-Rex: At the cold end of the scale we find "hot as the Dickens", because Charles Dickens was a real guy who is dead now, so he is a skeleton man. Skeletons are the temperature of the ground, which is cold and boring. Let's say... 10 degrees celsius, 283 Kelvin.
Dromiceiomimus: I thought "dickens" was a minced oath meaning "devil"?
T-Rex: UH, NOT ANYMORE
T-Rex: Next is "hot as fish grease": 463 Kelvin, or 1.5 boring grounds stacked together.
Utahraptor: Pretty hot!
T-Rex: Then we have "hot as hell", which being at the centre of the Earth is around 6200 Kelvin, or 13 fish greases. This is followed by "hot as the sun": 15 million Kelvin, which Science dictates is about 2400 hells, 32 thousand fish greases, or 53 thousand skeletons.
T-Rex: Finally, we have the hottest thing: balls. If you have ever tripped balls, you know how hot they can be.
T-Rex: They can be hot as balls.
