make it hot for
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Opponents did their best to make it hot for the law professors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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The best the school could do was to make it hot for any student caught going there.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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"That's what I am, and when I tell him how that fellow treated me he'll make it hot for him," boasted Sam Shaw.
From The Boy Pilot of the Lakes Nat Morton's Perils by Webster, Frank V.
"Come on, or Papowsky will make it hot for us."
From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Hamilton, Cosmo
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