It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

And,despite it being played over and over at every shopping mall in the country, it doesn't become commercial."

VOA: special.2010.12.22

It was a picture of a new dam being built in the western state of Montana.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Secretary Clinton said current levels of debt and deficits cannot continue without the United States losing influence and being limited in the decisions it has to make.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

It shows this huge bridge in San Francisco while it was being built.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

"It's really just like being in the environment where everyone's talking Spanish.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

So is it still being taught? "If the results of a survey we had published this year are accurate, it is being taught by about ninety percent of teachers in grades one to three."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

In fact,being a rich Western nation isn't necessarily an advantage when it comes to e-health and its mobile phone-based cousin, m-health.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

As it is,Swiss president Merz is being criticized for leaving Libya without the two detained Swiss citizens in tow.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

In the United States, it's newer because,for example, Houston - being a relatively new city - really was developed around the automobile."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

It showed demonstrators covered with blood and others writhing in pain after being shot by police.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

The methods they learned here are already being used in other regions,but it's not simple.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

He says it is hard being a Yellow Shirt in a red town, where many in the security forces and government are sympathetic to the Reds.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

China's Commerce Ministry says it is looking into accusations from local producers that American auto and chicken meat products are being dumped in China at below-cost prices.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14