turn on the heat
Example Sentences
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This is why she won’t turn on the heat.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026
It simply means getting your bearings before you turn on the heat: chopping vegetables and herbs, measuring ingredients, rereading the recipe once more with a clear head.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
A restaurant in suburban Detroit, the New York Times reported, began promoting a “Watergate Special” pizza: “First you order a Richard Nixon. Then you turn on the heat and get a Jerry Ford.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022
His friends rib him about his reluctance to turn on the heat at his house.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2016
She called “el lanlor” from work, so that he would turn on the heat in the building, but he never did.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
