pressure-cooker

Noun

pressure cooker (plural pressure cookers)

1. A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
2. (figuratively) A stressful situation that is liable to erupt.
   • Look, I had a pressure cooker of a job along with more responsibility that any one person should have. I had an office of twenty-five people under me all needing help like little birds in a nest.2006, J. P. Cardone, Tales Under a Full Moon, page 208