lord it over | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)To behave as if one isin controlof; to make a display of having anadvantageover orsuperiorityto.1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym;Washington Irving], chapter XVI, inA History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford,[…],→OCLC:They were in a manner absolute despots in their little domains,lording it, if so disposed,overboth law and gospel, and accountable to none but the mother-country.1838, Boz [pseudonym;Charles Dickens], chapter 53, inOliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London:Richard Bentley,[…],→OCLC:Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had oncelorded it overothers.1904,James M. Barrie, chapter 4, inPeter Pan:Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted tolord it overthem his triumph was at hand.2011April 28,Tristram Hunt, “How the Monarchy Allows Britannia to Make Waves”, inTime:The Delhi Durbar of 1911 saw King George V and Queen Mary bedecked in sapphires and rubieslording it overhalf a million Indian subjects.

Examples:

EN: You can't lord it over me anymore now, young lady.
ES: Ya no podrás sentirte superior a mí mucho más, jovencita.
EN: Well, now, look, you didn't have me come all the way from Boys Town... just to lord it over me, did you?
ES: Bueno, no me habrás hecho venir desde La Ciudad de los Niños... para alardear conmigo, ¿no?
EN: Sail away to a desert island probably and lord it over the monkeys.
ES: Tal vez, navegar hasta una isla desierta y ser muy dominante con los monos.
EN: We'd never survive anyplace without some big brain to lord it over us, so you've got to be killed.
ES: Nunca sobreviviríamos sin un gran cerebro que nos domine, por eso tenemos que matarlo.
EN: Next he will lord it over us.
ES: Después vendrá a por nosotros.
EN: He prefers to lord it over everyone here.
ES: Prefiere señorear aquí.
EN: She doesn't have to lord it over us and criticise us for not living up to her standards.
ES: Pero nos trata con prepotencia y nos critica por no estar a su altura.
EN: To lord it over the trembling creatures, the anonymous masses.
ES: Reinar sobre todas las criaturas que tiemblan de miedo, sobre la masa anónima.
EN: I could lord it over all those other snotty cheeses.
ES: Podría dominar a todos los quesos estirados.
EN: You lord it over others and you don't even know it.
ES: ¡Vas señoreando y ni te das cuenta!
EN: "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.
ES: Sabéis que los príncipes de las naciones se enseñorean de ellas, y sus altos funcionarios ejercen autoridad sobre ellos.
EN: Just because he stole it from Hades, doesn't give him the right to lord it over all of us for eternity !
ES: Sólo porque se lo robó a Hades no le da derecho a darnos órdenes por el resto de la eternidad.
EN: Isn't all this just so you can lord it over the rest of us, boss everyone around?
ES: ¿No es todo esto para que pueda... ponerse por sobre todas nosotras, mandarnos a todas?
EN: Listen to you lord it over me.
ES: Escucha bien tú que estás por encima de mí.
EN: I just want the title, so I can lord it over people.
ES: Sólo quiero el título, y así gobernar sobre las personas.

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