make it hot for someone—(coll.) put smb. under pressure; make things difficult for a person:
- Maybe if we make it hot for them, they’ll leave.
make someone hot—
1. cause a person to feel warm:
- I had to stay on the magnesium for another ten hours. It made me hot and nauseous and disoriented.
2. (coll.) make smb. feel angry or embarrassed:
- It is a curious thing that if you call his name aloud in public after an Englishman you make him hot and fretty.
3. (sl.) arouse a person sexually:
- Listen, I’m sitting here imagining you reading this, and it makes me hot, makes me want to get naked.
See also: get the hots for someone / give it hot to someone.