to come in hot
- phrasal verb
- Informal
- Chief O'Hara, we're coming in hot!
AMD is coming in hot with the price cuts.
- AMD is coming in hot with the price cuts.
- You know, we got all that because it's coming in hot.
- I was just in China and bro, that is you guys are coming in hot bro, there were oh, there were.
- So if you're dealing with a narcissist who's coming in hot and he's trying, he or she, I keep saying forgive me when I keep saying he first because it's he or she.
Examples
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I'm coming in hot!
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They're coming in hot.
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Oh, oh, boy's coming in hot Look at him.
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- Wow, coming in hot.
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- Private, coming in hot!
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It's coming in hot, boy, and it's coming in wet.
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We got three bogies coming in hot.
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AMD is coming in hot with the price cuts.
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We're coming in hot.
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The team is coming in hot as they prepare for the championship game.
Synonyms
To appear or arrive when you do not expect it
Begin to appear or become visible
Act quickly without thinking, for example by going into a place
To enter a room suddenly and interrupt people
To act in a confident, forceful way to make a strong impression
Go into a room or conversation suddenly and interrupt people
Suddenly appear in a place or in someone's mind and surprise people
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'come' (arrive) + 'in' (enter) transparently give a notion of arrival, but 'hot' is used metaphorically to mean energetic/urgent or high-performing rather than temperature. Because that metaphorical extension and the colloquial nuance are not fully predictable from the literal words, a B1 learner might guess a related meaning but would not reliably infer the exact sense without exposure.
Etymology
Come in hot may come from pilots who land a plane very fast: they come in at high speed and are hot, meaning 'moving fast and strong'. So today come in hot means 'to arrive quickly and full of energy' or 'to act with urgency'.