put your foot down

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

put your foot down idiom
1. to use your authority to stop something happening
• When she started borrowing my clothes without asking, I had to put my foot down.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Assertions and asserting
2. UK ( US floor it ) to increase your speed when you are driving
• The road ahead was clear, so I put my foot down.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Driving and operating road vehicles ↑Increasing and decreasing speed of motion ↑Moving quickly
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