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hot seat

noun as in painful or difficult situation

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When 239 people disappear on an airliner, who takes the hot seat?

Ebony magazine finds itself in the hot seat for a series of covers dedicated to slain teenager Trayvon Martin.

From her all-purple days to putting a novelist on the hot seat, a look at the early days of a trailblazer.

While the Murdochs were busy testifying at the Leveson Inquiry, a very different media figure was in the hot seat: Russell Brand.

Say no to drugs kids: Barbara Walters did her best to put Lady Gaga in the hot seat, pressing intently on her past drug use.

And he wanted it to look like he was on the hot seat and he would be there unless I came down to help him.

"The Hot Seat" had set some sort of record, not only for Broadway longevity, but for audience frenzy.

Shaking his head over this flimsy structure of logic, he headed down to "The Hot Seat."

Mosby grunted deep disgust, looked over his shoulder toward the hot seat, looked again at Bennington.

"I really didn't expect you to get tickets for 'The Hot Seat,'" she said.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hot seat, such as: hot spot, powder keg, spot, and sticky wicket.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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