What does under one's thumb mean?

under one's thumb

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

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"She has the entire crew under her thumb. They would do anything for her."
"...when you find a man under his wife's thumb you can always be sure there's a soft spot in him somewhere."
"`Fatty's under the thumb. Yeah it's not hard to see who wears the pants in that family. The wuss.'"

over a barrel to wear the pants to wrap around one's little finger

henpecked over a barrel to wear the pants to wrap around one's little finger

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