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in the hot seat

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Definitions

  1. Under pressure to perform

    Under pressure to perform; under scrutiny; at the center of attention.

    • They really put me in the hot seat during that last job interview. They asked lots of tough questions.
    • Mr. Tenev, 33, is now in the hot seat again after Robinhood abruptly curtailed its customers’ trading last week amid a frenzy in stocks such as GameStop, which were driven sky high by an army of online investors.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA