Thesaurus / put one's foot down

put one's foot down

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He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.

I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.

The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985