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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Warm as a Bat

Hot as burning coal. In South Staffordshire that slaty coal which will not burn, but which lies in the fire till it becomes red-hot, is called “bat.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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