VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

In the Hot Seat

Meaning:

Undergoing criticism or scrutiny; under pressure publicly

Examples:

  • Looks like Matty has put you in the hot seat.
  • However, it still needed a human being in the hot seat.
  • Now it is the turn of France to be in the hot seat.
  • How many of them have you had in the hot seat so far?
  • Now maybe you take a little time in the hot seat, how'bout that?
  • Why put myself in the hot seat?
  • How did Daddy wind up in the hot seat?
  • And it puts you in the hot seat.
  • We are not the ones in the hot seat when it comes to taking initiatives.
  • I know that i'm in the hot seat, but i'm not the only one that is.