under one's thumb in English

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      "expansion": "under one's thumb",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "text": "She has the entire crew under her thumb. They would do anything for her."
        },
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          "ref": "1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:",
          "text": "...when you find a man under his wife's thumb you can always be sure there's a soft spot in him somewhere.",
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        "Completely controlled by someone; at someone's command."
      ],
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          "command"
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        "(idiomatic) Completely controlled by someone; at someone's command."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "henpecked"
        },
        {
          "word": "over a barrel"
        },
        {
          "word": "to wear the pants"
        },
        {
          "word": "to wrap around one's little finger"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "pàlǎopó-de",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "怕老婆的"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "i sin hule hånd"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "tossun alla"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "tossutettu"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "unter dem Pantoffel"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "az uralma alatt"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "essere succube (di qualcuno)"
        },
        {
          "alt": "にょうぼうてんか",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nyōbō-tenka",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "女房天下"
        },
        {
          "alt": "にほんぼう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nihonbō",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "二本棒"
        },
        {
          "alt": "びかちょう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "bikachō",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "鼻下長"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "pod pantoflem"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "pod batem"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pod bašmakóm",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "под башмако́м"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pod kablukóm",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "под каблуко́м"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podkablúčnik",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "подкаблу́чник"
        },
        {
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "fo mhaide na poite"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "у шаци"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "u šaci"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "macabeo"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "under one's thumb",
          "word": "dan wab"
        }
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "under one's thumb"
}

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      "word": "henpecked"
    },
    {
      "word": "over a barrel"
    },
    {
      "word": "to wear the pants"
    },
    {
      "word": "to wrap around one's little finger"
    }
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        },
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          "text": "...when you find a man under his wife's thumb you can always be sure there's a soft spot in him somewhere.",
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      ],
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        "Completely controlled by someone; at someone's command."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) Completely controlled by someone; at someone's command."
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "pàlǎopó-de",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "怕老婆的"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "i sin hule hånd"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "tossun alla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "tossutettu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "unter dem Pantoffel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "az uralma alatt"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "essere succube (di qualcuno)"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にょうぼうてんか",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nyōbō-tenka",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "女房天下"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にほんぼう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nihonbō",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "二本棒"
    },
    {
      "alt": "びかちょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "bikachō",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "鼻下長"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "pod pantoflem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "pod batem"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pod bašmakóm",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "под башмако́м"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pod kablukóm",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "под каблуко́м"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podkablúčnik",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "подкаблу́чник"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "fo mhaide na poite"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "у шаци"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "u šaci"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "macabeo"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "under one's thumb",
      "word": "dan wab"
    }
  ],
  "word": "under one's thumb"
}

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"under one's thumb" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase