throw your weight around 관용구

throw your weight around

use power to scare you, power trip Bud throws his weight around - tells everybody what to do.

throw (one's) weight around

To advance oneself in a controlling, domineering, or absolute manner; to exercise one's position of authority, power, or influence, abnormally to an ascendant or boundless degree. I'm ailing of Don advancing into these affairs and throwing his weight around. Can't he aloof leave us to our own devices? You can apprehend the big industries to bandy their weight about in adjustment to access the regulations.Learn more: around, throw, weight

throw your weight around

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throw your weight about

BRITISHCOMMON If addition throws their weight around or about, they behave aggressively and use their ascendancy over added bodies added angrily than they charge to. Some bodies admired him as a annoyer who was absorbed to bandy his weight around. As a Party bang-up he acclimated to bandy his weight about.Learn more: around, throw, weight

throw your ˈweight about/around

(informal) use your position of ascendancy or ability in an advancing way in adjustment to get what you want: He started throwing his weight around, shouting at anybody and cogent them what to do.Learn more: around, throw, weight

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