ProverbChallengeAmerican origin

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

Meaning: If you can't handle pressure, leave the situation.

Origin: Harry S. Truman made it famous, using it as president and afterward, and credited it to his friend and military aide Harry Vaughan. It became Truman's shorthand for the pressures of high office, alongside the sign on his desk that read "The buck stops here."

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