a firm hand
*a firm hand
Fig. [someone's] strong sense of management; a high degree of discipline and direction. (*Typically: exercise ~; have ~; need ~; take ~; use ~.)
I had to use a firm hand with Perry when he was a child. He had a problem with discipline.
热门单词
- a bitch of a so or sth
- a case of the blind leading the blind
- active
- add (sth) to sth
- addition
- a dressing-down
- advance (up)on so or sth
- After while(, crocodile).
- aisle
- all the same (to so)
- all vine and no taters
- alpha
- alter
- amalgamate
- a matter of life and death
- a milestone in so's life
- and so forth
- angle
- an old warhorse
- An ounce of common sense is worth a pound of theory.
- answer to so
