pressure cooker
nounDefinitions
A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a…
A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
A stressful situation that is liable to erupt.
- Look, I had a pressure cooker of a job along with more responsibility that any one person should have. I had an office of twenty-five people under me all needing help like little birds in a nest.
- Wall Street hopes that economic deprivation will turn up the pressure cooker on internal relations.
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