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Verb: wear the trousers
  1. Exercise authority or be in charge
    "Who is wearing the trousers in this house?";
    - call the shots, call the tune

Derived forms: wearing the trousers, worn the trousers, wore the trousers, wears the trousers

Type of: command, control