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boss around

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boss someone around
to give orders to someone; to keep telling someone what to do. Stop bossing me around. I'm not your employee. Captain Smith bosses around the whole crew. That's his job.
See also: around, boss

boss somebody around
to tell someone what to do States and communities have complained that they're being bossed around by Washington.
See also: around, boss


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Several of this month's stories unmask ways in which the relatively powerful try to boss around the relatively powerless--typically with impunity and almost always in the name of some vaguely defined greater good.
Bleidner, who also worked for Time Warner-owned Fortune, similarly came to the end of his rope one day; it happened while driving his boss around L.
 
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