wear the trousers

Bradford is a curious mix of staunch feminist – her heroines are headstrong, independent women – while admitting that at home, her husband “wore the trousers; he was very much the boss”.

"I like to wear the trousers at work, while she wears them in the relationship," Sean says, admitting that giving up some of the limelight in office has been hard.

I will still have to work hard to tame you and not let you wear the trousers.

She was looking at him, too, and he wished he was not wearing the trousers with the hole near the knee.

“Who wears the trousers in the family?” he adds.