the heat

noun

: pressure to do something

The administration is putting the heat on legislators to approve the tax bill.

She's at her best when the heat is on with tight deadlines.

The company has turned up the heat on its employees to finish the job quickly.

Note: The expression if you can't stand/take the heat, get out of the kitchen means that you should not try to do a difficult job if you cannot deal with the pressure and problems that are part of the job.

Examples of the heat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Spring and fall offer the best opportunity to enjoy the riverfront and national park grounds without the heat of peak summer. —Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026

Those home-and-away supporters know how much England struggled with the heat during a camp last summer. —Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 10 June 2026

That will be one of the key differentiators with SPARC, which doesn’t have the heat extraction needed to maintain stable fusion for these long time periods, and so can’t maintain the near constant temperatures needed for reliable power generation. —ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026

If you're headed to the beach to beat the heat, there is a moderate risk of rip currents, and the UV index will be very high. —Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 9 June 2026

Rhymes for the heat

• amit
• athlete
• backseat
• blackfeet
• broadsheet
• browbeat
• buckwheat
• compete
• compleat
• complete
• conceit
• concrete