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Difference between Make it hot for someone and Make someone hot

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.