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Meanings of red-hot poker in English

Widely cultivated hybrid poker plant.

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Usage of red-hot poker in English
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It was then I learnt the reel vally of a red-hot poker.
Number Seventeen
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I feel as if I had taken hold of a red-hot poker.
The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
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That stolid and worthy ex-noncommissioned officer was armed with a red-hot poker.
Number Seventeen
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Mevrou let go of my ear as though it were a red-hot poker.
The power of one
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He straightened up like someone had touched him off with a red-hot poker.
Arizona Nights
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Think of a red-hot poker cut out of a single ruby!
Alarms and Discursions
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I'd apply a red-hot poker to his silver-side an' the under-parts o' his tripe-casings.
The Ivory Trail
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A red-hot poker could not have done it more nately!
In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
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It was like stirring up a man's guts with a red-hot poker-tosimilar effect.
Death angel
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The red-hot poker perked up again, but I found myself grinning like an idiot.
NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
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In ancient times, for example, there was the ever popular " red-hot poker" test.
59 seconds: think a little, change a lot
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Dust it with powdered sugar, and score it across the top with a red-hot poker.
Many Ways for Cooking Eggs
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Another suicide in Great Britain swallowed a red-hot poker.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Robin pulls a red-hot poker out of the robe.
Sympathy for the devil
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Something like a red-hot poker went through her eyes.
Shadows
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Like last night...' His eyes burned, as though he'd been sliced with a red-hot poker.
Dating the rebel tycoon
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