Put ones foot down là gì năm 2024

If you put your foot down, you refuse to negotiate or reconsider. You cannot be persuaded on this issue.

Câu trả lời được đánh giá cao

• Tiếng Anh (Mỹ)
• Tiếng Nam Phi Tương đối thành thạo

It means you've had enough of a certain situation. An example situation could be: Your friend steals your money regularly so you put your foot down by confronting them.

"putting your foot down" means you no longer let the situation 'slide'. You can't handle it anymore so you put an end to it.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishput your foot downput your foot downa) INSISTto say very firmly that someone must do something or must stop doing something You’ll just have to put your foot down and tell him he can’t stay out on school nights. b) informalTTC to make a car go faster → footExamples from the Corpusput your foot down• We were the camp, so I aimed for the ruts in the track and put my foot down.• You'd better put your foot down before those kids get completely out of control.• Ed was talking about dropping out of school, but Mom and Dad put their foot down.• Later still My silly wee sister has put her feet down and refuses to let me near her Power Pack.• They could have put their foot down and dragged us into court.• Rice, however, put his foot down and made what he called his first policy decision.• I put my feet down carefully.• I put my foot down and the car began to move .• She didn't answer, just put her foot down and sent the Cortina faster and faster through the night.• Justice puts its foot down on Oxie.• I wanted to take a year off before college, but my mother put her foot down.

"put one's foot down" câu

Bản dịch

• (xem) put
• put to put in one's oar to put one's foot down to put one's foot in it to put out...
• foot [fut] danh từ, số nhiều feet chân, bàn chân (người, thú...) bước...
• down [daun] phó từ xuống to go down đi xuống to fall down ngã...

Câu ví dụ

• put one's foot down, to take a firm stand; be decisive or determined. to put one's foot down: Kiên quyết, quyết tâm, giữ vững thế đứng của mình (nghĩa bóng).
• Put one's foot down, to take a firm stand; be decisive or determined. to put one's foot down: Kiên quyết, quyết tâm, giữ vững thế đứng của mình (nghĩa bóng).

Những từ khác

(There are people who don't say according to what they thought and don't do according to what they say. Beccause of that, they make others have to say what should not be said and do what should not be done to them.) ‘The key to faking it,’ Johanna, 12, says, is putting your foot down: ‘Refuse to be lured into nervousness!’North AmericanMany employers are putting their foot down when it comes to hiring veiled women.North AmericanI have thought of putting my foot down but I have a sneaking suspicion some of the unruly behaviour is vaguely familiar.IrishNaturally Lou doesn't want to spend the extra cash on staff, but this time Harold is being the top and putting his foot down about it.Australian2. (British English) accelerate a motor vehicle by pressing the accelerator pedalExamplesGreg hadn't gotten his seat belt on, when Maxine put her foot down on the accelerator, and peeled out, after Jenny.AustralianI put my foot down on the accelerator and sped away from the city.BritishI stared at the crashed car in the rear view mirror until it was out of sight, then I put my foot down on the accelerator.

Put one's foot in one's mouth nghĩa là gì?

Hôm nay chúng ta vừa học hai thành ngữ : PUT ONE'S FOOT IN ONE'S MOUTH nghĩa là ĂN NÓI VỤNG VỀ và THE END OF THE WORLD nghĩa là CHUYỆN TRỜI SẬP.