firm hand

*firm hand

Fig. [someone's] strong sense of management; a high degree of discipline and direction. (*Typically: exercise ~; have ~; need ~; take ~; use~.) I had to use a firm hand with Perry when he was a child. He had a problem with discipline.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Raisel	-	Yiddish
Jaxon	JAK-sən	English (Modern)
Hallr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Filipe	fee-LEEP, fee-LEE-pə	Portuguese
Evren	-	Turkish
Felicia	fə-LEE-shə (English), fe-LEE-thyah (Spanish), fe-LEE-syah (Latin American Spanish), fe-LEE-chyah (Romanian), fe-LEE-see-ah (Swedish)	English, Spanish, Hungarian, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Late Roman