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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 |
|---|
| Asad | | - | Arabic |
| Andromache | | [æn'dra:məki] | |
| Bindy | | BIN-dee | English |
| Ciriaco | | chee-ree-AH-ko (Italian), thee-ree-AH-ko (Spanish), see-ree-AH-ko (Latin American Spanish) | Italian, Spanish |
| Aygul | | - | Azerbaijani, Uyghur |
| Nero (1) | | NEER-o (English) | Ancient Roman |