put (one) on the hot seat

To criticize someone, usually severely. The boss put me on the hot seat after he found out that I was responsible for the error in the report.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ananth	-	Tamil, Indian, Telugu, Kannada
Clodovicus	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Herrington	['heriŋtən]
Ursel	-	German
Niviarsiaq	-	Native American, Greenlandic
Sylvester	sil-VES-tər (English)	English, Dutch, Danish, German