feel the heat
Verb
Meaning
feel the heat (third-person singular simple present feels the heat, present participle feeling the heat, simple past and past participle felt the heat)
To encounter an uncomfortable situation.
Examples
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something that they are showing the way when they are running away that they see the light when they feel the heat that they are chosen when they are shunned.
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train...
I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it.