Vocabulary Showcase: Phrases for hot weather

It’s July everyone! So, it’s time to complain about it being far too hot! It is a British tradition.

Here are some phrases you can use to complain about the weather being too hot, so you sound just as British and grumpy as us native speakers do!

• It’s a scorcher

• It’s baking

• It’s boiling

• It’s a sizzler

• It’s roasting

• It’s sweltering

• It’s tropical

• It’s a heatwave (usually a longer period of hot weather)

• It’s as hot as hell (slightly impolite)

• I’m melting

• It’s stifling (this is when there is high humidity, and it is hard to breathe)

• It’s like an oven/furnace

• You could fry an egg on the pavement! (exaggeration/joke)

So, just remember, step one to sounding English is to complain about the weather. It is a stereotype but is also the truth. It is 38C today and tomorrow is supposed to be 41C. We need to find out which god we offended and say sorry right now.