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
Marcell	-	Hungarian, German
Georg	GE-awrk (German), YE-ory (Swedish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Estonian
Bethari	be-TAH-ree	Indonesian, Javanese
Apolinar	ah-po-lee-NAHR	Spanish
Shelby	SHEL-bee	English
Chrysanthos	-	Greek, Ancient Greek