Rate this phrase:0.0 / 0 votes

put one's foot down on

To put a stop to, suppress; to reject.
5 Views
“

Mr. Warton said, he was delighted that the President of the Board of Trade had put his foot down upon the insane scheme of those self-constituted humbugs called Chambers of Commerce.

Collection   Edit    

Submitted on July 10, 2018

Translation

Find a translation for the put one's foot down on phrase in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Nearby phrases

Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to put one's foot down on

put one's foot down uponput one past someoneput one's money where one's mouth isput one's ass on the lineput one's hands togetherput one's name in the hatput one's finger onput one's foot downput one's foot in one's mouthput one's house in orderput one's best foot forwardput one's head in the sandput one's pants on one leg at a timeput one's house in order

How to pronounce this phrase?

Discuss this put one's foot down on phrase with the community:

0 Comments

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this put one's foot down on definition to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "put one's foot down on." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2025. Web. 4 Jan. 2025. <https://www.phrases.com/phrase/put-ones-foot-down-on_26333>.

    Powered by CITE.ME Cite.Me

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest human-edited phrases collection on the web!

    Quiz

    Are you a phrases master?

    »
    She looked like a _________ in headlights.
    A duck
    B deer
    C horse
    D chicken

    Browse Phrases.com

    #ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ