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in the hot seat en · ADP
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(idiomatic) Under pressure to perform; under scrutiny; at the center of attention.
They really put me in the hot seat during that last job interview. They asked lots of tough questions.
Mr. Tenev, 33, is now in the hot seat again after Robinhood abruptly curtailed its customers’ trading last week amid a frenzy in stocks such as GameStop, which were driven sky high by an army of online investors.
2021 February 2, Nathaniel Popper, Kellen Browning, Erin Griffith, “Robinhood’s C.E.O. Is in the Hot Seat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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