| 释义 |
under someone's thumbCompletely under someone’s influence or control: he was very much under the thumb of his father...- ‘You must be really satisfied at how you managed to hook me under your thumb all these years,’ he went on relentlessly.
- Tenali Rama's interpretation: You must not become a shrew but must be so to some extent in order to keep your husband under your thumb.
- Give it a couple of weeks, and The Man will soon stop asking you to do anything, and soon enough you'll have him under your thumb.
See parent entry: thumb |