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make it hot for

Idioms  
  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.


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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

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 Fiske, John

I have been walking these last days from place to place; and it does make it hot for walking with a sack in this weather.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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