during the heat of something

during the heat of something
in/during/the heat of something phrase
at the busiest time, or during the most difficult part of something

In the heat of the debate, she forgot to be nervous.

Thesaurus: individual stages of events and processeshyponym beginnings, starts and early stagessynonym
Main entry: heat

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