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
Elmas	-	Turkish
Anslow	['ænsləu]
DraŠKo	-	Serbian, Croatian
Aleksander	ahl-ek-SAHN-der (Polish)	Polish, Slovene, Albanian, Estonian, Norwegian, Danish
MairÉAd	-	Irish
Henriette	awn-ree-ET (French), hen-ree-E-tə (German), hen-ree-ED-de (Danish), hen-ree-ET-te (Norwegian)	French, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian