The meaning of " haut to trot"?
In its most general sense Hot to trot:
informal
Ready and eager to engage in an activity.
OED
More specifically an alternate definition of hot implies a double entendre:
Sexually avid, lascivious.
Both slangy usages allude to a horse eager to get going.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms
Substituting haute for hot evokes the expression haute couture:
NOUN
[MASS NOUN]
1.0 Expensive, fashionable clothes produced by leading fashion houses:
Origin: French, literally 'high dressmaking'.
Because our English word haughty comes from the French haute, some imply the double entendre becomes a quadruple entendre. She's:
- eager to show off her clothes?
- eager to show off her modeling skills?
- eager to show off her body?
- eager to show off her sexual power?
In reality, it is a popular expression for high end marketing to women.
Perhaps the "misspelling" of haut is a German's attempt to knock her down a notch?
German
Haut f
skin, hide of a person, animal or (part of a) plant
(pars pro toto) the creature itself, notably a person in brave Haut 'good-natured hide'
similar membrane ('skin') on the surface of an object, such as a sausage
I found this paragraph in an article while researching family history.
After 1000 A.D., border life was in turmoil. In 1246, 6 Chiefs from the Scottish side and 6 from the English side met at Carlisle and produced a set of laws governing all the border Clans. These were unlike any laws prevailing in England or Scotland or, for that matter, anywhere else in the world. For example, it was a far greater offence to refuse to help a neighbour recover his property, wife, sheep, cattle or horses than it was to steal them in the first place. Hence the expression "Hot Trod", or, a hot pursuit, from which we get the modern "Hot to trot". For refusal of assistance during a "Hot Trod", a person could be hanged on the instant, without trial. Frequently, the descendants of these clans or families apologetically refer to themselves as being descended from "Cattle or horse thieves" when, in fact, it was an accepted code of life on the border.
Source: Origins of the Bellingham surname