( melting pots)
1.
A melting pot is a place or situation in which people or ideas of different kinds gradually get mixed together.
The republic is a melting pot of different nationalities.
N-COUNT : usu sing
2.
If something is in the melting pot , you do not know what is going to happen to it. ( mainly BRIT )
Their fate is still in the melting-pot.
PHRASE : v-link PHR , PHR after v