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I have never heard of this expression in my life.

I feel like I've heard it before and would know what it means, just not something we generally use.

just for some variety in your menchies, I have at least heard it before, more than once, enough that it doesn't stand out anyway

same TIL that phrase

I learned so much British English from watching Top Gear, British comedy and being a Premier League fan, like taking a shot "in anger", but this one kinda passed me by.

Heard it, feels like it's a "fell out of use" thing mostly.

i dunno, feel like i hear it from time to time.

Never heard that phrase before

I'm Canadian and I had never heard it before.

I feel like I've heard it before but it's definitely not a common saying over here.

Wait how do you use torrid? I thought it was just intensely hot

british meaning is increasingly an anachronism imo, probably because the american usage has muddled it

Oh yeah absolutely, it got me for a while a long time ago before I got used to it.

Grace having quite a torrid (UK) time right now

TIL moment for me, consciously at least. If I ever heard/saw it I assume it was in UK media.

Never heard that phrase before in my life

my dad uses it to describe hot weather ("It is rude out there") but i've never heard rude health before

Who doesn’t know what rude health means? It’s means exactly what y’all think it means. No one uses it the other way lol

Never seen/heard in my life (that I've registered, at least)

Nope.

We don’t say that. This is perhaps one of several quirks about health and healthcare in America.