make it hot for

1. Cause trouble or discomfort for someone, as in They made it so hot for Larry that he had to resign, or The police were making it hot for shoplifters. This seemingly modern idiom was first recorded in 1618.

Example Sentences

With a little thinking and creativity, you can find the essential features of a scenario that make it hot for you and work those elements into your real life.

From Salon

“Yes, sir. We got plenty canister left. If they hit us now we could sure make it hot for them.”

From Literature

The best the school could do was to make it hot for any student caught going there.

From Literature

It’s thinking of things like that that comes pretty near making me feel lonely sometimes; and I won’t deny that there’s many a night when I’ve wished I had only to go down street to see the welcome light of your father’s lamp—and to find Somebody Else who was glad to see me, even if she did sometimes fire up and make it hot for me just because I’d been polite to some other girl.

From Project Gutenberg

You only try, my girl," he said, "you only try, and I'll make it hot for you.

From Project Gutenberg