bring (someone) to heel
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When John was sixteen, he thought he could do as he pleased, but his father cut off his allowance, and this brought John to heel.
Другие идиомы:
- set one back on one's heels
- bring (someone) into line
- Achilles' heel (of someone or something)
- cool one's heels
- bring (something) on
- down-at-the-heels
- bring (someone) around
- bring home the importance of (something) to (someone)
- bring (someone) to
- bring (someone) to terms
- bring (something) to (someone's) attention
- on the heels of (something)
- bring to mind
- bring about (something)
- take to one's heels