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11hot seat — I np The electric chair. Marcus got the hot seat for murder. 1920s II np A critical position with great pressure for success. Dwayne is in the hot seat now: if he doesn t make his quota, he is history. 1930s …
12hot\ seat — noun slang 1. the electric chair used to cause death by electrocution in legal executions. Many a man has controlled a murderous rage when he thought of the hot seat. 2. informal A position in which you can easily get into trouble. A judge in a… …
13hot seat — PHRASE: usu in/into PHR If you are in the hot seat, you are responsible for making important and difficult decisions. [INFORMAL] He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive …
14hot seat — Slang. 1. See electric chair. 2. a highly uncomfortable or embarrassing situation: I m in the hot seat because of the contract I lost. [1915 20] * * * …
15hot seat — noun a) the electric chair 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… …
16hot seat — Synonyms and related words: ax, beheading, block, burning, capital punishment, cross, crucifixion, death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, drop, electric chair, electrocution, execution, fusillade, gallows, gallows… …
17hot seat — an electric chair used for execution ... the killers who end up in the gas chambers or the hot seat. (Chandler, 1953) Much figurative use of an uncomfortable position of authority where something has gone wrong and there is nobody else… …
18hot seat — noun (the hot seat) informal 1》 the position of a person who carries full responsibility for something. 2》 N. Amer. the electric chair …
19Hot Seat (talk show) — Hot Seat was a syndicated politically orientated, though often satirical and comedic, television talk show that began in the early 1980s, hosted by conservative commentator Wally George. It was shot in the studios of KDOC, a UHF television… …
20Hot-Seat-Modus — Hot seat (engl. heißer Stuhl) ist eine Methode, um Computerspiele mit mehreren Personen zu spielen, auch wenn nur ein Computer zur Verfügung steht. Der Computer zeigt dabei üblicherweise nur die Daten und Teile der Karte an, die dem betreffenden… …
