under someone’s thumb

mod. under someone’s control. You can’t keep your kids under your thumb all their lives.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Milosh	-	Medieval Slavic
Crews	[kru:z]
Evgeny	yev-GYE-nee, eev-GYE-nee	Russian
Petronela	-	Romanian, Slovak, Polish
ValÉRie	va-le-REE (French)	French, Czech
Iliyana	-	Bulgarian