to feel hot shit
- phrasal verb
- Offensive
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(vulgar) sentirse muy importante y arrogante
- After his big promotion at work, he started to feel hot shit and bragged to everyone.
Examples
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After winning the award, I felt hot shit!
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She was feeling hot shit after her painting sold for a record price.
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You may feel hot shit now, but remember to stay humble.
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She feels hot shit after her promotion.
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After winning the championship, he started to feel hot shit and couldn't stop talking about it.
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She really feels hot shit since her novel became a bestseller.
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Once he landed the lead role, he began to feel hot shit and flaunted his success to everyone.
Synonyms
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Being sure you can do something well
To seem very powerful and important to yourself
Antonyms
How Confident
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although the words 'feel', 'hot', and 'shit' are individually knowable, the slang compound 'hot shit' is an idiomatic, vulgar intensifier whose meaning ('extremely confident/important') is not compositionally derivable from the literal senses of its parts. The expression is register-specific and slangy, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would not reliably infer the idiomatic meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Feel hot shit may come from a simple image: to be hot means to be wanted or admired, and adding the rude word shit makes that feeling much stronger. So when someone feels hot shit, they act as if they are 'very confident' or 'very important', often in a proud or arrogant way.