under one's thumb

English

Adjective

under one’s thumb

1. (idiomatic) Completely controlled by someone; at someone’s command.

   She has the entire crew under her thumb. They would do anything for her.

Translations

under one's thumb

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 怕老婆的 (cmn) (pàlǎopó-de)

• Danish: i sin hule hånd (da)
• Finnish: tossun alla (fi), tossutettu (fi)
• German: unter dem Pantoffel (de)
• Hungarian: az uralma alatt (hu)
• Japanese: 女房天下 (ja) (にょうぼうてんか, nyōbō-tenka), 二本棒 (ja) (にほんぼう, nihonbō), 鼻下長 (ja) (びかちょう, bikachō)

• Polish: pod pantoflem (pl)
• Russian: под башмаком (ru) (pod bašmakóm), под каблуком (ru) (pod kablukóm), подкаблучник (ru) (pod kablúčnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: у шаци (sh) (u šaci)
• Spanish: macabeo (es) m

See also

• henpecked
• over a barrel
• to wear the pants