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lord and master

NOUN
man of the house
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In a call with Rupert Murdoch, the former president informed Fox’s lord and master, “we have a bad person,” as Murdoch recounted in an email summary to Lachlan and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023

In the episode “Treehouse of Horror V,” we briefly see a universe in which Ned Flanders is “unquestioned lord and master of the world.”

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2019

"John Ball was the patron saint, emperor, mayor, the lord and master of Hoylake," Pinnington says.

From Golf Digest ● Jul. 7, 2014

It isn't bad as albums by boybands go, and doesn't have the awful aura of contemptuous this'll-do common to so much product overseen by One Direction's dark lord and master.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012

But for the satyrs, Pan was our lord and master.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan


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