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Hold feet to the fire
"Hold (someone's) feet to the fire "1.To pressure (someone) to consent or undertake something.2. To cause someone to feel pressure or stressBasically, we can translate it into Chinese as (from basic...
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I can’t think of a Chinese idiom which is close in meaning to “hold someone’s feet to the fire”. My advice is that disyllabic function words such as 施加, 施予, 予以, 加以, etc are usually avoided by most...
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拷逼 can be 拷打逼脅Example:「在拷逼之下，無奈劃押」The question is : " can 「拷逼」 or「施重壓」replace " hold feet to the fire" in the same context?"we have to (hold his feet to the fire) , then him will study hard...
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