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Put One's Foot Down (about Something) Idiom This
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. put one's foot down (about something)
What does put one's foot down (about something) mean? | to object to something strongly, to refuse to do something, to refuse to allow something to happen | My sister finally put her foot down and stopped paying for the gas for her daughter's car.
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