under one's thumb | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Completelycontrolledby someone; at someone'scommand.She has the entire crewunder her thumb. They would do anything for her.1912,Willa Cather,The Bohemian Girl::...when you find a manunder his wife's thumbyou can always be sure there's a soft spot in himsomewhere.1995,Paul Vautin,Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page144:`Fatty'sunder the thumb. Yeah it's not hard to see who wears the pants in that family. The wuss.'

Examples:

EN: to keep one's man under one's thumb
HI: किसी के छाव के नीचे खड़े रहने से
EN: under one's thumb,
TE: ఒకటి క్రిందనొ'క్కటొ నర లబ్ధము బెట్టి,

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).