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red-hot poker

noun



red-hot poker

noun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of red-hot poker1

First recorded in 1885–90; so called from the fiery red blossoms at the end of the flower spike
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Example Sentences

“It felt like someone had taken a red-hot poker out of the fire and stuck it through my chest,” Grantham recalled.

The image on one side is a skewed view of nature — a field or garden full of red-hot poker plants, their spiky crimson and yellow flowers shown in human-size close-up, pressed against the picture plane.

One screen takes us through a field of red-hot poker flowers.

The pain is often described as a red-hot poker or ice pick stabbing behind the eye and on the temple.

From Nature

"It was like having a red-hot poker, put between your vertebrae," she says.

From BBC

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