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

  Don't take on a job if you are unwilling to face its pressures.
• if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
  if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

  If the pressure or stress is too great, leave or give up. For example, It'll take a lot of weekend overtime to finish, so if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. This folksy adage has been ascribed to President Harry S. Truman, who certainly said it and may have originated it. [c. 1950]

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

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1. Don't take on a job if you are unwilling to face its pressures.

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

1. If the pressure or stress is too great, leave or give up. For example, It'll take a lot of weekend overtime to finish, so if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. This folksy adage has been ascribed to President Harry S. Truman, who certainly said it and may have originated it. [c. 1950]

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This saying was a favorite of President Harry S. Truman.

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

Says he: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

From Time Magazine Archive

First, he dealt decisively with his disintegrating Cabinet, warning right-wing dissidents two weeks ago to shape up by quoting Harry Truman's famous dictum, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

From Time Magazine Archive