put on the spot

Yet put on the spot when they ask her to share her story of survival, Eleanor shares Bessie’s personal history of escaping a Polish concentration camp instead, with horrific details she learned from her friend over sleepless nights of tortured memories.

“We just couldn’t, because we’d been put on the spot and told to do it, and that had never happened before … the trick was not to think about it.”

All too many people are ready to buy the sexist narrative that, because college girls giggle nervously when put on the spot, what they're saying isn't worth listening to.

In the first episode of the new series, Burrow, normally the one asking the questions, was the one put on the spot by guests from the first series.

"What upset me so much about the situation is I was put on the spot, nobody thought to ask me if I was ok with it, and nobody checked to see if I was ok afterwards," she said.