the heat is on
slangIf you say the heat is on, you mean that a time of great activity and/or pressure has begun:
With only months to go before the deadline, the heat is on.
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Experiencing difficulties
- be
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- creek
- difficulty
- embattled
- fall into sth
- flounder
- frying pan
- leg
- on a razor edge idiom
- out of the frying pan into the fire idiom
- patch
- pickle
- pressed
- pushed
- ride
- thin
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