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too hot to hold
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  1. A place that has too much police activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed.
1901, 2006, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, http://books.google.com/books?id=Jy_rBRz9u-MC&pg=PA18&ots=tMBUgYrOEO&dq=%22too+hot+to+hold%22&sig=nmPmi-d6fD5i3Qgy54is4AsONx4 p 18
: "He made England him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever."
Etymology: hot, Hot items are stolen goods.

     
 
  

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