hold someone's feet to the fire

hold someone's feet to the fire
To maintain personal, social, political, or legal pressure on someone in order to induce him or her to comply with ones desires; to hold someone accountable for his or her actions.

In this letter the governor explained that he was being threatened with impeachment and needed all the jobs in his gift to stave off such proceedings and to "hold the feet of members of the legislature to the fire."


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