build a fire under (someone)
подогревать, стимулировать, подстёгивать кого-либо
Пример использования идиомы build a fire under (someone):
It's no use trying to build a fire under Robert; he is as lazy as can be.
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- build a case (against someone)
- build (something) to order
- build up (someone or something)
- build up to (something)
- back the wrong horse
- badger (someone)
- bark up the wrong tree
- best-laid plans of mice and men
- bet on the wrong horse
- black sheep of the family
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- bull in a china shop
- buy a pig in a poke
- by shank's mare
- bat out of hell