hot seat

noun Slang.
2.
a highly uncomfortable or embarrassing situation: I'm in the hot seat because of the contract I lost.

Origin:
1915–20

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hot seat
 
n
1.  informal a precarious, difficult, or dangerous position
2.  (US) a slang term for electric chair

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hot seat definition


  1. n.
    the electric chair. (Underworld. See also in the hot seat.) : The hot seat is just waiting for you, Lefty.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
What he said, if said about any minority, would land him in the hot seat.
Few, however, expected her to be given the finance hot seat.
The for-profits are on the hot seat because they are the new kids on the block.
He had the hours in the hot seat during the relevant times.
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