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run the show

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run the show
to be in charge; to be in command. Who's running this show? No, I don't want to have to run the show again.
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run the show  (informal)
to be in charge of an organization or an activity (often in continuous tenses) He started off working in the kitchen and now he's running the show.
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run the show
to be in charge of an organization or an activity Although the new president of our club has not taken office yet, she's running the show already.
Related vocabulary: call the shots
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