put your foot down

Meaning

1. 1

   to be very strict in opposing what sb wishes to do

   You've got to put your foot down and make him stop seeing her.

2. 2

   British

   to drive faster

   She put her foot down and roared past them.

In the movies · 7

• Le-- Look, I-- I gotta put my foot down.Mighty Aphrodite1995
• That is where I put my foot down. I do not vogue.The End of the Tour2015
• If you'd put your foot down years ago, she wouldn't be like this! She wouldn't!Hillbilly Elegy2020
• Put your foot down.Trade2007
• Put your foot down and drive a little fasterThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.2015
• ...they were in our way. Next time, put your foot down.Wonka2023
• You could put your foot down at any time, and, and, you know.Free Solo2018

Learn it in full scenes

• Mighty Aphrodite1995
  • Lenny and Amanda Debate a Baby
  • Lenny and Amanda Name the Baby
  • Lenny and Amanda's Hamptons Fight
• The End of the Tour2015
  • Lipsky Pitches the Wallace Story
  • Dave Wallace Doesn't Drink
  • Wallace and Lipsky First Meeting

From the same entry

• be rushed off your feet
• fall on your feet
• feet first
• get a foot in the door
• get off on the right foot
• get your feet wet
• have feet of clay
• have your feet on the ground
• have a foot in both camps
• have one foot in the grave
• …my foot
• on your feet

More idioms

• sooner or later
• on board
• out loud
• in order to do
• in the long run
• ahead of time
• have had enough
• face to face
• all over the place
• in no time
• at stake
• go with the flow