make it hot for someone
make it hot for (someone)
To pressure someone or otherwise make them uncomfortable, usually so that they will change their behavior or act in a certain way. The other students decided to make it hot for the classroom bully so he'd stop picking on the younger kids. If we want this guy to confess, we need to make it hot for him in the interrogation room.
See also: hot, make
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
make it (or things) hot for someone
make life difficult for someone.See also: hot, make, someone
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
make it hot for someone
tv. to make things difficult for someone; to put someone under pressure. (Note the variation in the examples.) The cops were making it hot for him, so he blew town.
See also: hot, make, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- make it hot for
- make it hot for (someone)
- make it hot for somebody
- make it warm for (one)
- make it warm for someone
- make things hot for (one)
- make things warm for (one)
- be out of (one's) element
- out of (one's) element
- out of element