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单词 hot seat
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hot seat

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noun Slang.

electric chair.
a highly uncomfortable or embarrassing situation: I'm in the hot seat because of the contract I lost.

Origin of hot seat

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby hot seat

hot rod, hot rodder, hot-roll, hots, hot sauce, hot seat, hot seat, in the, hot shit, hot shoe, hot-short, hotshot
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British Dictionary definitions for hot seat

hot seat

noun

informal a precarious, difficult, or dangerous position
US a slang term for electric chair
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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