"Hot enough for you?" (1876, 1878, 1880)

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>I found it in NewspaperArchive ("The Daily Miner," Montana (quoted from
Boston "Journal"), 1882). Seems a cliche there too.
Scot
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>From American Historical Newspapers:
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29 June 1876, Wheeling (WV) Register, pg. 3:
IT is bad enough to have the thermometer in the nineties, without being
obliged to answer on every corner the imbecile greeting: "Is it hot enough for
you to-day?"
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20 July 1878, Philadelphia Inquirer, "St. Louis Visitor," pg. 2:
The intensity of the heat was the subject of discussion wherever two  persons
would meet. With the thermometer at 97 degrees in the shade people were
coolly asked, "Is it hot enough for you," or were given the equally cool
information, "It's hot!" by friends they met with on the street.
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31 August 1880, Wheeling (WV) Register, pg. 4:
IT is estimated that during the late heated term the expression, "Is it hot
enough for you?" has been said ____ times.

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