put one's foot down on

Verb

put one's foot down on (third-person singular simple present puts one's foot down on, present participle putting one's foot down on, simple past and past participle put one's foot down on)

1. (idiomatic) To put a stop to, suppress; to reject.
   • 'And say it bloody firmly, by God. We want to put our foot down on this idea once and for all.'1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 21”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC
   • 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.1939 January 30, “Exit Schacht”, in Time