hot seat
Noun
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Noun
hot seat (plural hot seats)
- (slang) The electric chair.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 10:
- With deep creases slanting across the jowls of his dark bony face from the corners of his wide full mouth, and his sunken dark eyes, he was certainly a prime subject for the artists who sketch candidates for the hot seat for the tabloids, and for three days they had been making the most of it.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 10:
- The seat occupied by a game show contestant at a stage where they are answering questions alone.
- (by extension) Any stressful situation.
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