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in the hot seat
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Prepositional phrase
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in the
hot seat
(
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 and videotaped the whole thing.