call the shots

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call the shots 的定义

  1. Exercise authority, be in charge, as in It's up to the boss to call the shots. This term probably alludes to determining accuracy in target practice. [Mid-1900s] Also see call the tune.

call the shots 近义词

v. 动词 verb

be in charge

更多call the shots例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  4. Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.
  5. This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.
  6. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  7. Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.
  8. It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.
  9. After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.
  10. "I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.