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pressure cooker

noun as in heavy pot with airtight lid

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But it often seemed like the group's fame felt like a pressure cooker for a young Payne.

From Salon

“It’s like a pressure cooker, everyone’s just one small incident away from having a complete meltdown and saying ‘I can’t cope anymore’.”

From BBC

After the war, he was known to drive around the state with a pressure cooker in the back of his sedan so he could demonstrate the merits of brown rice on demand.

When you put those two things together, you can see why it might result in a pressure cooker environment.

From BBC

Joe Biden's campaign has been thrust into a pressure cooker of doubt, as panic and worry about his election chances pour in from the highest levels of the Democratic party.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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