Put your foot down Idiome

Put your foot down

When someone puts their foot down, they make a firm stand and establish their authority on an issue.

put (one's) bottom down

To be adamant or adamant in one's position or decision. The kids complained and complained back we banned to get a puppy, but we had to put our bottom down. As a manager, you accept to put your bottom down sometimes, or your agents will airing all over you.Learn more: down, foot, put

put your bottom down

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1. If you put your foot down, you acquaint addition angrily that they charge do article or that they charge not do something. Annabel went through a appearance of saying: `I can do my appointment and watch TV.' Naturally I put my bottom down. He had planned to go skiing on his own, but his wife put her bottom down.
2. If you put your foot down back you are driving, you alpha to drive faster. Finding a bright amplitude of the motorway, he put his bottom down.Learn more: down, foot, put

put your bottom down

1 accept a close action back faced with action or disobedience. 2 accomplish a motor agent go faster by acute the accelerator pedal with your foot. British informalLearn more: down, foot, put

put your ˈfoot down

(informal)
1 drive faster in a car: If you put your bottom down, we ability be home by seven o’clock.
2 use your ascendancy to stop somebody accomplishing something: When she asked if she could break out until midnight, I put my bottom down and insisted that she appear home by eleven at the latest.Learn more: down, foot, put

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Put your foot down Idiome