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

“Mama’s the big boss around here. She pulls all the strings. The doctor, the dentist, the Gymboree instructor — they’re all on the take. Everybody answers to her.”

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2021

“I was not really the boss around ‘Prairie Home Companion,’” Keillor said.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2018

“You can’t boss around the dead,” as the soothsayer tried to explain afterward, but Lady Constance was convinced the fortune-teller was a fraud, and spoke harshly about the incident for weeks afterward.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood