under one's thumb

English

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.
- 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:
  ...when you find a man under his wife's thumb you can always be sure there's a soft spot in him somewhere.

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
Russian: под башмако́м (pod bašmakóm), под каблуко́м (ru) (pod kablukóm), подкаблу́чник (ru) (pod kablúčnik)
Serbo-Croatian: у шаци (u šaci)
Spanish: macabeo (es) m

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