Rural Dictionary

Put your thumb down

"Put your thumb down" is a phrase that is used when someone try's to throw up the horns (a gesture where you pull in you middle, ring and thumb into your palm. Often used by fans of the metal genre. )but leave the thumb extended.

Often said to newer metalheads or posers. (Keep in mind if you make the mistake as a new metalhead it does not make you a poser.)

Metalhead: "DruidLord is brutal"
New Metalhead: "Fuck yeah it is" *throws horns with thumb*
Metalhead: "Put your thumb down!"
New Metalhead: "shit sorry"

by Flameb0i March 28, 2022

put yourself in my shoes

To make an effort to imagine how you would feel or act if you were in the same situation as a particular person. You should be kinder when considering others, and put yourself in their shoes once in a while.

In 2021 a shoe brand JiiJ made a worldwide campaign called Put Yourself In My Shoes.

Try to be in my place. Put yourself in my shoes and you will understand how I feel.

JiiJ - Put Yourself In My Shoes.

by jiij December 9, 2021

putting sticks in someone's wheels

(Mettre des bâtons dans les roues de quelqu'un in French): preventing someone, from achieving their social or educational potential, or hindering their plans all together

The current American public education is wetter than an otters pocket; it's putting sticks in someone's wheels. And guess whose ox is being gored? The American students'.

by Sexydimma June 6, 2021