boss around

Example Sentences

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The point of the order is to eliminate government dispensations that let the firms boss around companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

"It really seems like kind of a bread-and-butter strategy they use to signal to their borrower that 'We're the big boss around here'," Brad Parks explains.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2021

You have every right to boss around the grandparents when it comes to your immediate family.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2020

Fran Fine might have been able to wrap the boss around her red-lacquered little finger, but Drescher is the boss.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2020

Don’t you want some cousins to boss around?

From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson