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    The idiom "rule the roost" means to be the person who makes all the decisions in a group. In the example sentence, it says that the grandma rules the roost in her family, meaning she is the one who is in charge and makes all the family decisions. The document provides the definition of this idiom from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus and also gives some related words involving controlling, being in charge, and governing.

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    The idiom "rule the roost" means to be the person who makes all the decisions in a group. In the example sentence, it says that the grandma rules the roost in her family, meaning she is the one who is in charge and makes all the family decisions. The document provides the definition of this idiom from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus and also gives some related words involving controlling, being in charge, and governing.

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    The idiom "rule the roost" means to be the person who makes all the decisions in a group. In the example sentence, it says that the grandma rules the roost in her family, meaning she is the one who is in charge and makes all the family decisions. The document provides the definition of this idiom from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus and also gives some related words involving controlling, being in charge, and governing.

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    Meaning of rule the roost in English


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    rule the roost


    idiom

    Add to word list &

    to be the person who makes all the


    decisions in a group:

    • In that family it is the grandma who


    rules the roost.

    ' SMART Vocabulary: related words and


    phrases

    Controlling and being in charge

    aggrandize
    assert your authority
    assume
    assumption
    authoritative
    commanding
    cynical
    get the better of someone idiom
    get your hooks into someone/something
    idiom
    get/fall into the wrong hands idiom
    govern
    guiding principle
    paternalistic
    paternalistically
    peremptorily
    " peremptory
    play God idiom
    tame
    wrangle
    wrangler !

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    (Definition of rule the roost from the Cambridge Advanced


    Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University
    Press)

    Translations of rule the roost

    in Chinese (Traditional)

    當家作主, 主宰, ⽀配⼀切…


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    in Chinese (Simplified)

    当家作主, 主宰, ⽀配⼀切…


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    in Spanish

    llevar la batuta, llevar las riendas,


    dirigir el cotarro…
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    in Portuguese

    cantar de galo…
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