| 单词 | boss of bosses |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboss of bosses boss of all bosses n. (also boss of bosses) (a) U.S. a person who has total control over a political party or similar organization; cf. sense b (now rare); (b) originally U.S. a person who runs every branch of the Mafia in a particular region; = capo di tutti capi n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [noun] > other secret societies > member of > chief boss of all bosses1880 capo mafioso1952 capo1959 capo di tutti capi1969 1880 Wheeling (W. Va.) Reg. 11 June 2/1 In putting such a man on the ticket..the convention humbled itself in the dust at the feet of the Boss of Bosses. 1899 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 13 Oct. 8/1 The eighteenth boss, the boss of all bosses, the governor, he, too, was on hand. 1910 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. 8/1 Mr Roosevelt has only two remedies for bossism. One is..becoming himself the boss of bosses, and..turning the others out. 1963 Organized Crime & Illicit Traffic in Narcotics (U.S. Senate Comm. Govt. Operations, 88th Congr. 1 Sess.) i. 80 They used to have the boss of all bosses..and then we had the individual bosses of the individual families, and then we had an underboss, [etc.]. 1990 F. Dannen Hit Men (1991) iii. 38 This left Maranzano the capo di tutti capi , or boss of bosses—but not for long. 2014 i (Nexis) 1 Mar. 23 Thousands of miles away the Sicilian Mafia's ‘boss of all bosses’ planned an audacious transatlantic hit. < as lemmas |
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