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hot seat
noun- the position of responsibility, especially if the situation attracts critical attention UK, 1942
- Although nobody is accusing him [Romano Prodi] of misconduct, he finds himself in the hot seat. — The Daily Telegraph, 19 July 2003
- the electric chair; death by electrocution in the electric chair US, 1925
- And if either of you are tapped for the hot seat, you’d do a lot better by letting Pat pick you up. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 19, 1947
- “He said if I didn’t”–Nick’s eyes fastened the jurors–“he was going to see that I got the hot seat.” — Willard Motley, Knock on Any Door, p. 432, 1947
- His buttocks, in creased midnight-blue trousers, for the hot seat. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 164, 1958
- Why risk sudden death or the hot seat just for a moment of playing the big shot. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 137, 1959
- I could’ve got life or the hot seat for what I did. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 130, 1973
- a high-pressure situation US, 1935
- First thing Monday morning McCaleb would be on the hot seat, the focus of intense scrutiny. — Michael Connelly, Blood Work, p. 245, 1998
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