keep (someone) under (one's) thumb

To maintain authoritarian control over someone; to continually force someone to submit to one's will. They seem happy when they're out and about, but I hear that Johnny keeps his husband under his thumb at home. Although the job was well paying, I couldn't stand the way the boss kept me under his thumb.

词组	keep (someone) under (one's) thumb
释义	keep (someone) under (one's) thumb keep (someone) under (one's) thumb To maintain authoritarian control over someone; to continually force someone to submit to one's will. They seem happy when they're out and about, but I hear that Johnny keeps his husband under his thumb at home. Although the job was well paying, I couldn't stand the way the boss kept me under his thumb. See also: keep, thumb Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: attend to accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey accompany on a journey a stranger to (someone or something) be out of (one's) league be out of somebody's league be in bad with (someone) a happy bunny a happy camper (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
随便看	swear (that) black is white swear to swear up and down sweat sweat blood sweat blood, to sweat buckets sweat bullets sweat equity sweater sweater up sweat for sweat for (something) sweat it out sweat like a pig sweat of brow sweat off sweat (one's) guts out sweat out sweat out of sweats sweatshop sweat-shop sweat sock sweat something out