wear the trousers

English

wear the trousers (third-person singular simple present wears the trousers, present participle wearing the trousers, simple past wore the trousers, past participle worn the trousers)

(Britain) Of a woman: to be the dominant partner in a relationship.
- 1988, John Rowan, Windy Dryden, Innovative Therapy in Britain‎:
  His mother wore the trousers, and father, a gentle man who worked in local government, was not ambitious enough for her.

to be the dominant partner

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Hungarian: viseli a nadrágot
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Portuguese: mandar na casa
Romanian: purta pantalonii, fi cocoș în casă, fi capul familiei
Russian: верхово́дить в до́ме (verxovóditʹ v dóme), быть в до́ме хозя́ином (bytʹ v dóme xozjáinom)
Spanish: llevar los pantalones
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