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Meaning of in the hot seat | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Under pressure to perform; under scrutiny; at the center of attention.

idiomatic

Examples

“They really put me in the hot seat during that last job interview. They asked lots of tough questions.”

“Mr. Tenev, 33, is now in the hot seat again after Robinhood abruptly curtailed its customers’ trading last week amid a frenzy in stocks such as GameStop, which were driven sky high by an army of online investors.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

in the house in the hunt in the interest of justice in the interest of time in the interim in the know