hot on

idiom

informal
: strongly favoring or liking (something)
The company president is very hot on the idea of developing new products.

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The Nemesis: Relentless MI6 agent Bianca Pullman (Lashana Lynch) is hot on the Jackal’s trail — and almost gets him. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 19 June 2025 The viral post comes hot on the heels of a post in which a dad challenges users to complete his 5-year-old son's tricky word search. Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025 Meanwhile, a crooked wayfarer named St. Christophe (Jackson) is hot on Broadway’s trail, catching up with the young man and revealing that his dead dad wasn’t, in fact, a stand-up guy. Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025 Dexter: Resurrection, the follow-up to 2021’s Dexter: New Blood, reveals that Michael C. Hall’s title character isn’t actually dead and is hot on the trail of his missing son, Harrison. Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot on

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“Hot on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20on. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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