| 词汇 | in-the-hot-seat |
| 释义 | in the hot seatidiom in a position where you are responsible for important or difficult things处境尴尬，处于困境 Duty, obligation and responsibility accountable accountable to someone accountably answer for something buck commitment department dual role duty duty of care fail fall to someone obliged on your own head be itidiom ought to owe someone a livingidiom portfolio shoulder someone's answer to someone/somethingidiom the onus Examples of in the hot seatin the hot seat We are not the ones inthehotseat when it comes to taking initiatives. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He is inthehotseat at the moment and, therefore, we have to rely on him to bring back a fair deal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It looks as if the ratepayers are inthehotseat once again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But the final couple inthehotseat faltered on the seventh question. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Appearing as the first celebrity to sit inthehotseat, he eventually tried for $125,000, but got the answer wrong. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Each segment consists of two hosts with three guests, one guest at a time being inthehotseat. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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