wear the pants

Example Sentences

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She plans to wear the pants for just a season or two.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Players can wear the pants down or wear them high to show off the special socks.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023

“I’m loud, and I’m vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody’s got to,” Martha says with unrepressed bitterness to her husband George.

From Economist • Apr. 5, 2018

I doff my shirt at every chance, but when with Trump I wear the pants.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2017

“Hey, I wear the pants in this family, so don’t you be a smarty-pants,” she said, and poked me on the shoulder.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos