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Thumb Power Control Wife's Countries Media Firmly Government

Idiom under your thumb
Definition in your power; under your control
Examples - He's really under his wife's thumb. He won't do or say anything without asking her first.
- In some countries the media is firmly under the thumb of the government.

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