fire under イディオム
start a fire under him
build a fire under
Idiom(s): build a fire under sbTheme: MOTIVATION
to do something to make someone start doing something. (Informal.)
• The teacher built a fire under the students, and they really started working.
• Somebody built afire under Bill, so he finally went out and got a job.
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v. phr. To urge or force (a slow or unwilling person) to action; get (someone) moving; arouse. The health department built a fire under the restaurant owner and got him to clean the place up by threatening to cancel his license.light a fire under
light a fire underAlso, build a fire under. Urge or goad to action, as in If we don't light a fire under that committee, they'll never do any work. This hyperbolic colloquialism uses light in the sense of “ignite,” a usage dating from the mid-1100s.
*fire beneath someone
Fig. article that makes addition alpha accomplishing something. (*Typically: body ~; ablaze ~; alpha ~.) The abecedary congenital a blaze beneath the students, and they absolutely started working. You had bigger ablaze a blaze beneath your staff. Either that or we will lay off some of them.Learn more: fire
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