| 释义 |
throw one's weight about (or around) informal Be unpleasantly self-assertive: he didn’t swagger or throw his weight around...- Officials tended to throw their weight around, whilst deferring to those above them on the bureaucratic ladder, to scramble for petty privilege, and to defend their narrow departmental turf.
- Problem is, you tend to get young blokes coming in groups of two or three, and just throwing their weight around.
- He is the typical office bully who throws his weight around because he is the boss's man.
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