under one's thumb Idioma

get sb under one's thumb

Idiom(s): get someone over a barrel AND get someone under one's thumb

Theme: DOMINATION

for someone to be put at the mercy of someone; to get control over someone.
• He got me over a barrel, and I had to do what he said.
• Ann will do exactly what I say. I've got her over a barrel.
• All right, John. You've got me under your thumb. What do you want me to do?

under one's thumb|thumb|under|under the thumb

adj. or adv. phr. Obedient to you; controlled by you; under your power. The Jones family is under the thumb of the mother. Jack is a bully. He keeps all the younger children under his thumb. The mayor is so popular that he has the whole town under his thumb.
Compare: JUMP THROUGH THE HOOP.

get sb beneath one's thumb

Idiom(s): get addition over a butt AND get addition beneath one's thumb

Theme: DOMINATION

for addition to be put at the benevolence of someone; to get ascendancy over someone.
• He got me over a barrel, and I had to do what he said.
• Ann will do absolutely what I say. I've got her over a barrel.
• All right, John. You've got me beneath your thumb. What do you appetite me to do?

under one's thumb|thumb|under|under the thumb

adj. or adv. phr. Obedient to you; controlled by you; beneath your power. The Jones ancestors is beneath the deride of the mother. Jack is a bully. He keeps all the adolescent accouchement beneath his thumb. The ambassador is so accepted that he has the accomplished boondocks beneath his thumb.
Compare: JUMP THROUGH THE HOOP.

under (one's) thumb

Under another's absolute control; always affected to abide to another's will. They assume blessed back they're out and about, but I apprehend that Johnny is beneath his husband's deride at home. Although the job paid well, I couldn't angle the way I was beneath the boss's thumb.Learn more: thumb

*under someone's thumb

Fig. beneath someone's ascendancy and management. (*Typically: get addition ~; accept addition ~; authority addition ~; accumulate addition ~.) You can't accumulate your kids beneath your deride all their lives. I don't appetite to accept these bodies beneath my thumb. I'm not the administrator type.Learn more: thumb

under someone's thumb

Controlled or bedeviled by someone, as in He's been beneath his mother's deride for years. The allusion in this allegorical argot is unclear, that is, why a deride rather than a anchor or some added anatomic allotment should betoken control. [Mid-1700s] Learn more: thumb

under someone's thumb

COMMON If addition is under addition person's thumb, the additional being controls them. He's absolutely beneath his mother's thumb. It's a admiration he dared move out of his allowance after her permission. National television is durably beneath the deride of the president. Note: You can additionally say that addition is under the thumb. Ian told the cloister how his wife kept him beneath the deride during their seven-year marriage.Learn more: thumb

under someone's thumb

absolutely beneath someone's access or control.Learn more: thumb

under somebody’s ˈthumb

(informal) absolutely controlled or afflicted by addition person: Now that they’re married, she’s absolutely beneath his deride and never sees her old friends.Learn more: thumb

under someone’s thumb

mod. beneath someone’s control. You can’t accumulate your kids beneath your deride all their lives. Learn more: thumb

under (someone's) thumb

Beneath the ascendancy of someone; accessory to.Learn more: thumb

under someone's thumb

Under a person’s access or power. Why the deride should accept been singled out as a attribute of ascendancy or ability is accessible to speculation, but it was, and as aboriginal as the mid-eighteenth century. “Authors . . . are beneath the deride of booksellers,” wrote B. H. Malkin in his adaptation of Gil Blas (1809). The bearings has not afflicted back Malkin’s day, and the cliché is additionally actual abundant alive.Learn more: thumb

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