Meaning of put one's foot down on | Babel Free

Definitions

To put a stop to, suppress; to reject.

idiomatic

Examples

“'And say it bloody firmly, by God. We want to put our foot down on this idea once and for all.'”

“The last way to get money is to make more of it. Dr. Schacht who had pulled Germany out of the horrors of the 1923 inflation, put his foot down on printing more money.”

“Deputy Youth and Sports Minister M Saravanan put his foot down on a suggestion mooted yesterday by a Youth Parliament member to legalise the use of marijuana, also known as ganja, in the country.”

CEFR level