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put one's foot down
put one's foot down
Take a firm stand, as in She put her foot down and said we could not go to the carnival. This idiom alludes to setting down one's foot firmly, representing a firm position. [Late 1800s]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Jasna | | - | Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian |
| Sohvi | | SOH-vee | Finnish |
| Eun-Young | | uwn-yung | Korean |
| MirosŁAw | | mee-RAW-swahf | Polish |
| Kieron | | KEER-awn, KEE-ar-awn | Irish |
| Silas | | SIE-ləs (English) | English, Greek, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek |