wear the pants
Example Sentences
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And she’ll likely wear the pants for just a season or two.
She plans to wear the pants for just a season or two.
Players can wear the pants down or wear them high to show off the special socks.
From Seattle Times
He improvised a replacement line that Hughes used in the film: “When you meet your Mr. Right, make sure he knows you wear the pants in the family.”
From Washington Post
I tried something different, and the one time I actually told someone that I prefer traditional male-female roles—that I don’t like to “wear the pants” in a relationship—he misconstrued that as I want to be controlled.
From Slate
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
