hot seat

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any stressful situation
the electric chair

With deep creases slanting across the jowls of his dark bony face from the corners of his wide full mouth, and his sunken dark eyes, he was certainly a prime subject for the artists who sketch candidates for the hot seat for the tabloids, and for three days they had been making the most of it.

a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism
electric chair
an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair; "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"
If you are in the hot seat, you are responsible for making important and difficult decisions. He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive
hot chair
hot seats
plural form of hot seat
in the hot seat
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.

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