put (someone or something) under a microscope
put (someone or something) under a microscope
To begin closely inspecting someone or something; to examine someone or something with intense scrutiny. After I got that official reprimand at work, it feels like my bosses are putting me under a microscope. The country's surveillance methods are being put under a microscope lately, after news sources learned that it had been eavesdropping on its own citizens' communications.
See also: microscope, put
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- begin with
- begin with (someone or something)
- be/have done with somebody/something
- be in line with (someone or something)
- better of
- (someone or something) promises well
- bird has flown, the
- beware of
- beware of (someone or something)
- be rough on (someone or something)