make it hot for
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Opponents did their best to make it hot for the law professors.
From Time Magazine Archive
A number of people might have wanted to kill Mrs. Bischoff: Shortly before her death she wrote to her husband that she was about to expose him and "make it hot for McLaughlin."
From Time Magazine Archive
The best the school could do was to make it hot for any student caught going there.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Planters and merchants were urged to sign a pledge not to discriminate between paper and gold, and if any one dared refuse the fanatics forthwith attempted to make it hot for him.
From The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske
"Jim," I said, touching him on the shoulder, "they mean to make it hot for Bethel, and he will be one man against fifty—we must not allow anything like that."
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch
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