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English
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
under one's thumb
- (idiomatic) Completely controlled by someone; at someone's command.
She has the entire crew under her thumb. They would do anything for her.
Translations
under one's thumb
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 怕老婆的 (pàlǎopó-de)
- Danish: i sin hule hånd
- Finnish: tossun alla, tossutettu
- German: unter dem Pantoffel
- Hungarian: az uralma alatt
- Italian: essere succube (di qualcuno)
- Japanese: 女房天下 (にょうぼうてんか, nyōbō-tenka), 二本棒 (にほんぼう, nihonbō), 鼻下長 (びかちょう, bikachō)
- Polish: pod pantoflem, pod batem
- Russian: под башмако́м (pod bašmakóm), под каблуко́м (ru) (pod kablukóm), подкаблу́чник (ru) (podkablúčnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: fo mhaide na poite
- Serbo-Croatian: у шаци, u šaci
- Spanish: macabeo (es) m
- Welsh: dan wab (literally “under slap”)
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