put over knee

put somebody over your knee

(old-fashioned)

to punish a child by hitting them on the bottom Her father threatened to put her over his knee if she missed school again.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Francisca	frahn-THEES-kah (Spanish), frahn-SEES-kah (Latin American Spanish), frən-SEESH-kə (Portuguese)	Spanish, Portuguese, Late Roman
Breda	-	Irish
Duha	-	Arabic
Nixon	['niksn]
Ehud	-	Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Zulfaqar	-	Arabic