in the hot seat

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in the hot seat (British, American & Australian) also on the hot seat (American)

in a position where you are responsible for important or difficult things He suddenly found himself in the hot seat, facing a hundred angry residents at a protest meeting. She has been the woman in the hot seat at this company during the last five difficult years. Give me a break -- I've been sitting on the hot seat all morning, fielding phone calls from angry customers!

See hard on heels, hard on the heels of, blow hot and cold, drop like a hot brick

See also: hot, seat

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Fox was already in the hot seat following a comment in May that Mexicans do the jobs in the U. BLACK LEADERS ARRESTED CONSULATE BLOCKED IN PROTEST OF STAMP by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Los Angeles-based AIDS fund-raising company Pallotta TeamWorks is in the hot seat over its bicycle rides for AIDS vaccines. TeamWorks goes to court. (Lawsuit) by Quittner, Jeremy / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) John Kelly, in the Century City office of proxy solicitation firm MacKenzie Partners, was in the hot seat again last week. Action. (Wall street west) by Cole, Benjamin Mark / Los Angeles Business Journal More results

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Fox was already in the hot seat following a comment in May that Mexicans do the jobs in the U.

BLACK LEADERS ARRESTED CONSULATE BLOCKED IN PROTEST OF STAMP by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Los Angeles-based AIDS fund-raising company Pallotta TeamWorks is in the hot seat over its bicycle rides for AIDS vaccines.

TeamWorks goes to court. (Lawsuit) by Quittner, Jeremy / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

John Kelly, in the Century City office of proxy solicitation firm MacKenzie Partners, was in the hot seat again last week.

Action. (Wall street west) by Cole, Benjamin Mark / Los Angeles Business Journal

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