putty in your hands
putty in (one's) hands
Easy to control or bend to one's wishes. (Putty is a very malleable material.) Oh, come on, Julia is putty in our hands—we can definitely get her to help us with this prank.
See also: hand, putty
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
putty in your hands
If someone is putty in your hands, they will do anything you ask them to do. Simon proved to be putty in his hands. I was completely in awe of him — I was putty in his hands. Note: You can also just say that someone is putty. Sometimes he'd do something like bring her a box of chocolates and she would be putty for a week. Note: Putty is a thick paste that is used to fix sheets of glass into window frames.
See also: hand, putty
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- putty in (one's) hands
- putty in hands
- putty in somebody's hands
- putty in someone's hands
- be like putty in someone's hands
- be putty in (one's) hands
- putty
- be an easy touch
- bend over
- above bend