under someone’s thumb

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

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Theodoard	-	Ancient Germanic
Buana	BWAH-nah	Indonesian
Yamato	yah-mah-to	Japanese
Monifa	-	Western African, Yoruba
Odilon	-	French, Portuguese
Ulf	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish