top dog

So you see, the man is the top dog in a case like this, my dear, and he can compel the woman to obey him.

Lucilla, as Jeckie well knew, had long been top dog in the Grice menage.

He's got to believe he's top dog, or else he folds and quits.

Go back on my hand-shake, just to be top dog and get the bones!

All I know is that we are top dog, and everything will pan out all right in the end.

Then your title would be ‘Top Dog’ or something of the sort.

His name is Jules Rondeau, and he's top dog among the lumberjacks.

Ingolby was wounded and blind, maybe for ever, and women are always with the top dog—that was his theory.

Little bit tall to be promising posts till you're certain you're top dog!

All the same, in spite of his attitude of "top dog" in the family, he was attractive, and inclined to be generous.