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in the hot seat

  1. In an uncomfortable or embarrassing situation, usually by being subjected to severe criticism: “When the settlement talks broke down, he was in the hot seat with both management and labor.” The phrase is an extension of “hot seat,” slang for the electric chair.



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But organizations are just as much in the hot seat as prospective employees are.

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Gary Lineker held back tears as he signed off from his final edition of Match of the Day after 26 years in the hot seat and officially left the BBC.

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Now, however, judges are denying TPS applications because the statuses are set to expire — and appearing before a judge places migrants in the "hot seat."

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So it’s a little ironic that now she herself is in the hot seat—her voters, the people who tried to keep her in office, are facing the kind of disenfranchisement that, as a civil rights attorney, she battled for years.

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Match of the Day has, extraordinarily, had just five main presenters in its history - with Gary Lineker being in the hot seat for the past 26 years.

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