fire hose
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈfaɪər hoʊz/
- Informal
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avalancha de información
- After the announcement, we received a fire hose of questions from journalists eager for details.
- fire hose of information
- drink from a fire hose
Here's billions of dollars, here's a fire hose of stimmy checks.
- Here's billions of dollars, here's a fire hose of stimmy checks.
- Maybe we're getting such giant mixed messages from these fire hoses of information in disparate directions.
- If they continue to demonstrate an inability to monetize this this fire hose of traffic, it's going to get cut way down.
- I look forward to more truthful praise from garbage bag Jim Acosta and fire hose of lies CNN.
- And you have a fire hose of cheap, readily available, hyper processed, hyper palatable foods, energy dense.
- Oh my Lord, we are drinking from the fire hose of news today all about President Biden and we are nearing, I believe, the end for him.
Examples
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They spend their days drinking from a fire hose of information.
Academic text (1994) -
So you get what's Putin calls a fire hose of propaganda.
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Nonetheless, Twitter announced that they would share the fire hose of data with Musk so that the deal could go ahead.
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Understanding an extraterrestrial message could be like drinking from a fire hose.
Academic text (1996) -
Oh my Lord, we are drinking from the fire hose of news today all about President Biden and we are nearing, I believe, the end for him.
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Maybe we're getting such giant mixed messages from these fire hoses of information in disparate directions.
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Blog text (9) -
Mass Relevance has access to the full Twitter fire hose and offers its customers filtering, curation, and display technology to add Tweets about a TV show, political campaign, or other event to their web pages.
Blog text (4) -
During the crisis, the media provided a fire hose of information that overwhelmed the public.
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The new policy led to a fire hose of feedback from users, making it hard to keep up with responses.
Synonyms
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2.8
A constant flow of news on phones and websites
How Overwhelming
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines literal constituents—'hose' (a pipe that delivers a strong flow) and 'fire' (a blaze or firefighting context)—so learners can infer the idea of a powerful, continuous flow. However, the leap from a literal water/foam stream to an abstract stream of messages or complaints is a metaphorical extension, so the exact target (information/complaints) is not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Fire hose is also used as a picture: imagine water blasting out so hard it hits everything, fast and hard. That's why people use it to mean 'a very large, rapid, and often overwhelming stream of questions or messages' — it feels hard to handle like the real hose.