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call the shots

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.04 sec.
call (all) the shots
to decide on the course of action; to be in charge. Why do you have to call all the shots? Do what you're told. I'll call the shots.
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call the shots and call the tune

Fig. to make the decisions; to decide what is to be done. Sally always wants to call the shots, and Mary doesn't like to be bossed around. They don't get along well. Sally always wants to call the tune.
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call the shots/tune
to be the person who makes all the important decisions and who has the most power in a situation She was used to calling the shots, to being in charge.
See answer the call of nature, call in chips, bring to heel
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call the shots
to make the important decisions The company was more successful when just one or two people were calling the shots.
Related vocabulary: call the tune
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Now there are a growing number of people of color behind the scenes, where owners, general managers, and coaches call the shots and control the economics, according to the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics, which publishes annual report cards that evaluate the minority hiring practices of major sports leagues.
2 billion, a stake so large that at most modern corporations they would call the shots.
Special interests pick up the tab, which is why they call the shots.
 
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