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

Former Premier League striker Chris Sutton said West Ham's owners could have shown Moyes "more respect" and that they had "messed" the former Manchester United and Everton boss around.

From BBC • May 10, 2024

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

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2018

Glen Farraye, the president of Mr. Simmons’s Rush Communications, who was showing his boss around, countered: “That ain’t Ikea. It’s really expensive.”

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2016

Don’t you want some cousins to boss around?

From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson