crack the whip
to use your authority to make someone else behave better or work harder:
We were two months behind schedule, so I decided it was time to crack the whip.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Giving orders & commands
- all-points bulletin
- behest
- boss
- bossyboots
- chain of command
- charge
- defy
- demand
- dun
- enjoin
- expect
- forget
- harry
- lay down the law idiom
- mandate
- ordain
- order sb around
- overbearing
- prescribed
- steamroller
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