make it hot for
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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
Opponents did their best to make it hot for the law professors.
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
She is as fond of him as ever, though, and she'll make it hot for you if you don't watch out.
From Kidnapped at the Altar or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain by Laura Jean Libbey
I shouldn't like to be in their shoes when Mr. Scott finds it out; he'll make it hot for them!
From Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 by Various
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