in the hot seat

English

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• on the hot seat

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Prepositional phrase

in the hot seat

1. (idiomatic) 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.

   • 2021 February 2, Nathaniel Popper, Kellen Browning, Erin Griffith, “Robinhood’s C.E.O. Is in the Hot Seat”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.