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come under scrutiny

To begin being scrutinized, examined, or monitored very carefully. The company has come under intense scrutiny from the government on suspicion of tax evasion and money laundering. You'll be the first to come under scrutiny if anyone notices that money missing. I hear that their business practices have come under scrutiny from the FBI.
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have (someone or something) under scrutiny

To begin scrutinizing, examining, or monitoring someone or something very carefully. The government has had the company under close scrutiny on suspicion of tax evasion and money laundering. The boss has me under scrutiny right now because of that mishap with the Robertson account, so I have to be extremely careful not to make any more mistakes. I know management will really have me under scrutiny during this probationary period of my employment.
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intense

slang Serious or severe, perhaps to an overwhelming degree. That war movie was way too intense—I had to turn it off. Whoa, that accident sounds intense! Are you OK? Her competitive nature is just too intense for me. I don't understand why she needs to be the best at every single thing she does.

keep (someone or something) under scrutiny

To continue scrutinizing, examining, or monitoring someone or something very carefully. The government has been keeping the company under close scrutiny on suspicion of tax evasion and money laundering. The boss has kept me under scrutiny ever since that mishap with the Robertson account, so I have to be extremely careful not to make any more mistakes.
See also: keep, scrutiny

put (someone or something) under scrutiny

To begin scrutinizing, examining, or monitoring someone or something very carefully. The government has put the company under close scrutiny on suspicion of tax evasion and money laundering. The boss is putting me under scrutiny right now because of that mishap with the Robertson account, so I have to be extremely careful not to make any more mistakes.
See also: put, scrutiny

under pressure

1. Literally, forced through or into some vessel with great compressive force. The contents of this container are under pressure, so do not pierce it or expose it to fire or you could risk triggering an explosion. Crude oil underneath the ground can be under intense pressure, which is why it can erupt into a geyser when drilled into directly.
2. (While) facing or enduring a great amount of stress caused by some compelling or constraining influence. I can't talk now, I'm under pressure to get this done before the end of the day! Sorry, I'm just under so much pressure at work that it's made me rather irritable.
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crash course (in something)

a short and intense training course in something. I took a crash course in ballroom dancing so we wouldn't look stupid on the dance floor.
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*under pressure

 
1. and *under a deadline; *under the gun (about something) Fig. facing or enduring something such as pressure or a deadline. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) I have to get back to work. I am under a deadline. I am under a lot of pressure lately. The management is under the gun for the mistakes made last year.
2. [of a gas or liquid] being forced, squeezed, or compressed. (*Typically: be ~; deliver something ~; put something ~.) The gas in the pipes leading to the oven are under pressure.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

crash course

A short, intensive training course, as in Daisy planned to take a crash course in cooking before she got married. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]
See also: course, crash
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

under ˈpressure


1 if a liquid or a gas is kept under pressure, it is forced into a container so that when the container is opened, the liquid or gas escapes quickly
2 being forced to do something: The director is under increasing pressure to resign.
3 made to feel anxious about something you have to do: The team performs well under pressure.
See also: pressure
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017

intense

mod. serious; heavy. Oh, wow! Now that’s what I call intense!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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We should not, Babbitt cautioned, assume that the purpose of "whirling machinery" is "merely to serve as point of departure for a still intenser activity" (LAC, 262).
One glimpsed a nobility in Pike's delivery, a heroism defiant to the end; baritonal timbres brought crushed sorrow, and intenser tones conveyed inner mental despair.
Once upon a time the fruits of living in an age of liberation were variously supposed to be life more abundant, deeper insight, intenser feeling, "love's coming of age" Some of these goals may sometimes have been attained by some people: life is complicated.
He thought there was an unknown energy flaring down out of the light towers, some intenser working of the earth, and it isolated the players and the grass and the chalk-rolled lines from anything he'd ever seen or imagined.
Eden's comment that apostrophes "'almost always arise from some intenser feeling in the context"' (qtd.
I began to cast about for some way to blame her for my own lack of intenser desire; I watched her for subtle indications of "putting me off," as though she were responsible for extruding an aura around herself, like a seducing Circe, but in reverse, a cloud of unexcitement that neutralized her beauty's effect.
sun pleasurable), and the intenser hot sun of midday which can be painful, they call nat taendabiy (lit.
Bridges wrote of his friend Dolben, what could also be said of Hopkins, |he had a much intenser poetic temperament than I.
Perkins shows that Nag Hammadi texts adapt the notion of a sleeping Logos from such authors as Philo, Plutarch, and Alcinous/Albinus, but do not follow them in seeing the beauty of the visible world as a foretaste of an intenser quality in the upper realm.
The heavens of America appear infinitely higher, the sky is bluer, the air is fresher, the cold is intenser, the moon looks larger, the stars are brighter, the thunder is louder, the lightning is vivider, the wind is stronger, the rain is heavier, the mountains are higher, the rivers longer, the forests bigger, the plains broader." This statement will do at least to set against Buffon's account of this part of the world and its productions.
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Pursuing Hardy's "delicate artistry" further, into an examination of "Logs on the Hearth," an elegy for his beloved younger sister Mary, and with that "intenser / Stare of the mind" ("In Front of the Landscape") which is Hardy's own, Maxwell dwells on the "once vital body" of the felled tree which is "innocent of any blame that might have brought about its demise," as she so eloquently puts it.
154: the world seems bared of its covering and given an intenser life.