wear the trousers
UK US wear the pants informal(especially of a woman) to be the person in a relationship who is in control and who makes decisions for both people:
Blake may seem bossy, but it's Lisa that really wears the trousers in that relationship.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Controlling and being in charge
- aggrandize
- assume
- assumption
- authoritative
- balance of power
- divide
- dominant
- have sb by the balls idiom
- have sb eating out of your hand idiom
- have sb in the palm of your hand idiom
- have sth in hand idiom
- have/hold the whip hand idiom
- heel
- hook
- preside over sth
- pull
- pull rank idiom
- pull the strings idiom
- putty
- rein
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