hold someone's feet to the fire (English, verb)
expansion: hold someone's feet to the fire (third-person singular simple present holds someone's feet to the fire, present participle holding someone's feet to the fire, simple past and past participle held someone's feet to the fire)
Senses:
glosses: To maintain personal, social, political, or legal pressure on someone in order to induce them to comply with one's desires; to hold someone accountable for their actions.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: holds someone's feet to the fire
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: holding someone's feet to the fire
tags: participle
present
form: held someone's feet to the fire
tags: participle
past
form: held someone's feet to the fire
tags: past