Meaning of pressure cooker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
2. A stressful situation that is liable to erupt.
   figuratively

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Examples

“Look, I had a pressure cooker of a job along with more responsibility that any one person should have. I had an office of twenty-five people under me all needing help like little birds in a nest.”

“Wall Street hopes that economic deprivation will turn up the pressure cooker on internal relations.”

“Humanity lives in a pressure cooker of stress because of the ruthless way in which we compete, because of our lack of respect for the international rules of commerce, because of social conflicts, because of the devastation to the environment.”

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