put (someone) over (one's) knee

put (someone) over (one's) knee

To punish someone (almost always a child) by spanking them. If you don't stop that shouting this instant I am going to come in there and put you over my knee!
See also: knee, over, put
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • take a knee
  • at (one's) mother's knee
  • at your mother's knee
  • at (one's) knee
  • knee biter
  • down on one knee
  • knee-jerk
  • knee-high to a duck
  • knee-high to a jackrabbit
  • knee