| 单词 | to run the show |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run the show (a) Originally U.S. to run the show: to be in charge; to make the important decisions regarding an undertaking, organization, etc. (sometimes spec. when another person or group is ostensibly in charge); ‘to call the shots’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] stightlea1375 to have the law in one's own hands1573 boss1856 to run the show1878 to call the tunea1915 to carry the ball1924 to run with the ball1926 to call the shots1967 1878 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 28 June The loud approval with which the bondholders and nose-shavers who run the show greeted the diatribes against wealth and aristocracy. 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Sept. 1/5 Farm representatives viewed the decision as another victory for the banker element which they fear intends to ‘run the show’. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top vii. 61 The accountants and the engineers run the show no matter who's in charge. 2015 Northern Territory News (Austral.) (Nexis) 3 Mar. 13 Who is running the show—our elected officials or the heavily subsidised henchmen of Big Oil? < as lemmas |
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