0 in a position where you are responsible for important or difficult things
We are not the ones in the hot seat when it comes to taking initiatives.
He is in the hot seat at the moment and, therefore, we have to rely on him to bring back a fair deal.
It looks as if the ratepayers are in the hot seat once again.
But the final couple in the hot seat faltered on the seventh question.
Appearing as the first celebrity to sit in the hot seat, he eventually tried for $125,000, but got the answer wrong.
Each segment consists of two hosts with three guests, one guest at a time being in the hot seat.
