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Synonyms for put one's foot down
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : foo t |
Phonetic Transcription : fʊt |
Top 10 synonyms for put one's foot down Other synonyms for the word put one's foot down
- adjust
- announce
- arrange
- array
- bend
- bias
- call the tune
- command
- compel
- condition
- constrain
- decide
- demand
- determine
- distribute
- fix
- force
- govern
- group
- induce
- influence
- lay down the law
- lead
- locate
- make willing
- marshal
- methodize
- motivate
- move
- oblige
- ordain
- organize
- prepare
- prescribe
- promote
- prompt
- pronounce
- put
- put one's foot down
- put to rights
- range
- rank
- read the riot act
- regulate
- require
- ride herd on
- rule
- set
- set in order
- settle
- shepherd
- stand
- sway
- systematize
- tailor
Définition of put one's foot down
Origin :- Old English fot, from Proto-Germanic *fot (cf. Old Saxon fot, Old Norse fotr, Dutch voet, Old High German fuoz, German Fuß, Gothic fotus "foot"), from PIE *ped- (cf. Avestan pad-; Sanskrit pad-, accusative padam "foot;" Greek pos, Attic pous, genitive podos; Latin pes, genitive pedis "foot;" Lithuanian padas "sole," peda "footstep"). Plural form feet is an instance of i-mutation. Of a bed, grave, etc., first recorded c.1300.
- The linear measurement of 12 inches was in Old English, from the length of a man's foot. Colloquial exclamation my foot! expressing "contemptuous contradiction" [OED] is first attested 1923, probably a euphemism for my ass, in the same sense, which dates back to 1796. The metrical foot (Old English, translating Latin pes, Greek pous in the same sense) is commonly taken as a reference to keeping time by tapping the foot.
- To get off on the right foot is from 1905; to put one's best foot foremost first recorded 1849 (Shakespeare has the better foot before, 1596). To put one's foot in (one's) mouth "say something stupid" is attested by 1942; the expression put (one's) foot in something "make a mess of it" is from 1823.
- As in decree : verb order rule or action
- As in dispose : verb place, order; deal with
Antonyms for put one's foot down
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