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in the hot seat

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in the hot seat (British, American & Australian, 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.
See also: hot, seat


in the hot seat
in a difficult position. He suddenly found himself in the hot seat, facing angry residents who wanted him to resign.
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.
Los Angeles-based AIDS fund-raising company Pallotta TeamWorks is in the hot seat over its bicycle rides for AIDS vaccines.
John Kelly, in the Century City office of proxy solicitation firm MacKenzie Partners, was in the hot seat again last week.
 
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