build a fire under (someone) -Idioms

Idioms

build a fire under (someone)

to stimulate someone to do something

We keep trying to build a fire under our friend but he refuses to study or look for a job.

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build castles in the air/in Spain

build up (someone or something) or build (someone or something) up

build up to (something)

bull in a china shop

bump into (someone)

bump off (someone)

bundle of nerves

burn (oneself) out

burn (someone) in effigy

Tell it to the marines.

snap (something) up or snap up (something)

nothing short of (something)

ride roughshod over (someone or something)

on the alert (for someone or something)

hold (someone) down or hold down (someone)

in the context of (something)

keep the wolves at bay

My Account / Test History

Invention
Invention : door, revolving
Year : 1888
Inventor : theophilus von kannel
Country : us. .. More >>

Verbal Reasoning