put your foot down
C2 to use your authority to stop something happening:
When she started borrowing my clothes without asking, I had to put my foot down.
UK to increase your speed when you are driving:
The road ahead was clear, so I put my foot down.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Assertions & asserting
- airing
- assert
- assertion
- attestation
- aver
- claim
- emphatic
- foot
- lay
- lay sth on the line idiom
- maintain
- make out sth
- misstate
- set
- soi-disant
- story
- take
- take it from me idiom
- take sth from sb
- that's my story and I'm sticking to it idiom
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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
Increasing and decreasing speed of motion
Moving quickly