I'm not feeling so hot meaning in English

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Definition

I'm not feeling so hot: I don't feel too great, I'm not feeling too well, I feel ill idiom

Examples

  • "Look, babe, I'm not feeling so hot."
Exercise 1
Philip tells Polly that he isn't "feeling so hot"
He is telling her that .
Philip tells Polly that he isn't "feeling so hot"
He is telling her that he does not feel well.
he does not feel well: The idiom "I'm not feeling so hot" means that someone is feeling "unwell" and is probably sick. This is what Philip is expressing when he says "I'm not feeling so hot".
he does not have a fever: The idiom "I'm not feeling so hot" does not indicate that Philip doesn't have a fever. It expresses that he simply feels bad. It is a figure of speech which is hardly ever used to express temperature literally. "A fever" is an abnormally high temperature (felt by a person).
he does not want to speak with her: This is not at all what this idiom expresses.
he will be late: Although it fits in the context of the dialogue, the expression "I'm not feeling so hot" doesn't express that Philip will be late to work.

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