put on the spot
Example Sentences
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Its Valuably Quiet program, launched in 2021, also includes discussion panels and resource guides to help leaders and team members better understand introverts, who tend to shrink from public performance and get flustered when put on the spot.
“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.”
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From BBC
"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.
From BBC
But he has been put on the spot this weekend by President Biden’s announcement outlining a proposal for a truce.
From New York Times
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