boss around

“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.

It came as the government wrote to bosses around the country advising them to have their contingency plans written down on paper, in case they lose access to their computers in a hack.

Labour's vast, not so new ranks, are not willing to be bossed around.

"None of us are people that will be bossed around. So if you put five of those people together all the time and then they start annoying each other... eventually there's going to be eruptions."

Samuel studies Romy until he picks up that his boss wants to be bossed around.