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lord it over



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Idioms and Phrases

Domineer over, act arrogantly toward, as in After Mary was elected president, she tried to lord it over the other girls . [Late 1500s] Also see queen it .
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He loved this so much he lorded it over me for years.

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He won all the trophies, dominated the landscape, lorded it over proceedings like a king on his throne.

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One team meet-up is staged, randomly, at an auto junkyard; it’s as though these serial sedan-killers want to lord it over the corpses.

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Then an injury that took him out of the game from the end of December until Saturday, when he reappeared like a colossus and lorded it over Twickenham.

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“In a democracy, the people are in charge. Elected representatives like me and my parliamentary colleagues do not lord it over you. We are your servants.â€

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