Meaning:
In need of help; in trouble
Examples:
- Insoluble in cold water but dispersible in hot water
- Insoluble in cold water but dispersible in hot water
- Soluble in hot water, insoluble in ethanol
- This the same guy that got the captain in hot water?
- No, not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup.
- Slightly soluble in hot water
- No more. I don't want to get Potter in hot water.
- Reheat frozen food in hot water, not the microwave.
- Dispersible in hot water
- And we haven't the right to send Abel someone who's in hot water.