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Idiom: Wrap someone around your little finger
To wrap someone around your little finger means to make someone do whatever you wish.
This phrase describes the relationship between a dominant person and the dominated or a wife and her husband, at least in my case.
The person being dominated can be said to be under the complete control of the dominant person.
If you are wrapped around someone’s little finger, you will do whatever you want them to do; they have complete control over you.
We can wrap someone around our finger by charming and manipulating them into doing what we want.
People who possess charisma or otherwise have a charming personality often seem to have a particular magic ability to coerce others into doing what they want.
Have you ever seen people wearing multiple rings on multiple fingers?
Have you ever thought it was strange to be wearing so many rings?
In the past, girls actually used to wear rings on their fingers to show off how many people they had wrapped around their fingers.
I introduced a similar term some time back, have someone under your thumb, which also means to have someone under your power.
Once we have another person under our thumb or wrapped around our little finger, we can tell them what to do and how to think.
This phrase’s critical element is the implication that someone else has complete control over what you do, which suggests that you are not allowing yourself to make any decisions for yourself.
If you are wrapped around someone’s little finger, you will do whatever they want you to do; they have complete control over you.
I’ll throw my own two cents’ worth in here again and say many men may like this feeling because so many of us marry.
No matter what a man thinks going into a marriage, sooner or later, his better half has him wrapped around her little finger.
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