Iets onder de knie hebben
Meaning: To have mastered a skill.
Language: Dutch
Literally: To have something under the knee
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: Likely from wrestling, where pinning an opponent under your knee meant you had fully got the better of them.
More idioms — Body & Senses
- اللي على راسه بطحة بيحسس عليها (illi ʿala rasu baṭḥa byiḥassis ʿalayha) — The guilty person gives himself away.
- Avoir le bras long — To have influence and useful connections.
- Avoir le cœur sur la main — To be very generous and giving.
- To cost an arm and a leg — To be extremely expensive.
- Tener más cara que espalda — To be utterly shameless and brazen.
- Non avere peli sulla lingua — To speak bluntly and hold nothing back.
More Dutch idioms
- Met de neus in de boter vallen — To arrive at exactly the right, lucky moment.
- Het regent pijpenstelen — It is raining very heavily.
- Iets met de Franse slag doen — To do it carelessly and half-heartedly.
- De kat uit de boom kijken — To wait cautiously before committing.
- Iets voor zoete koek aannemen — To swallow a story uncritically.
- Met de gebakken peren zitten — To be stuck with the unpleasant aftermath.