make the weather | Idiomator

Meaning: (chieflyUK,idiomatic)To beextraordinarilyeffective, especially when in a position ofauthority.2008,John le Carré,A Most Wanted Man,→ISBN,page303:And at three o'clock this afternoon:Eureka!He had it in his hand, a flimsy brown file plucked from the catacombs of the public prosecutor's office. It was marked for destruction but by a miracle had escaped the flames. Bachmann had once moremade the weather.2013April 9,Philip Hensher, “Britain without Margaret Thatcher”, inGuardian, UK, retrieved27 August 2018:To try to imagine what the country would have looked like without the dominant politician of the past 60 years is a dizzying exercise. Margaret Thatchermade the weather.2016, Peter Marsh, “Did Joseph Chamberlain Really ‘Make the Weather’?”, in I. Cawood, C. Upton, editors,Joseph Chamberlain,→ISBN, page 1:Winston Churchill recalled Joseph Chamberlain as "incomparably the most live, sparkling, insurgent, compulsive figure in British affairs" at the end of the nineteenth century. He was "the one", said Churchill, "whomade the weather".2018April 9,Ellen Barry, “Europe: A Drifting UKIP Ousts Leader at Center of Racism Row”, inNew York Times, retrieved27 August 2018:"You cannot get away from the fact that they havemade the weather, politically, on two issues, on forcing the referendum and on the question of migration," he said. "They’ve had more of an influence than you would expect from a party that only won one parliamentary election."

Examples:

EN: We really make the weather ourselves, don't we Hepzibah?
ES: En realidad, creamos nuestro propio clima, ¿no?
EN: I do not make the weather, sir.
ES: - Yo no decido la meteorología.
EN: But you could not make the weather better. No. But we would not have strolled to the island of Elba.
ES: Su Excelencia, se espera de usted un celo especial.
EN: Because just one boy does not make the weather.
ES: Porque un solo niño no hace una categoría.
EN: So how many boys make the weather?
ES: ¿Y cuántos niños hacen una categoría?
EN: Girls can also make the weather!
ES: ¡Las niñas también pueden formar una categoría!
EN: Did you have to make the weather so cold?
ES: ¿Tuviste que hacer que hiciera tanto frío?
EN: We could then make the weather ship.
ES: Y qu¡zás lleguemos hasta el barco.
EN: Look, I don't make the weather.
ES: Yo no decido el clima.
EN: (Hawke) Only God can make the weather.
ES: Sólo Dios controla el clima.
EN: The monkey said, "I can make the weather change."
ES: El mono dijo, "Puedo cambiar el clima."
EN: I make the weather.
ES: Yo hago el tiempo.
EN: I make the weather by means of mental powers.
ES: Creo el tiempo por medio de mis poderes mentales.
EN: That you make the weather?
ES: ¿Que fabricas el clima?
EN: Yeah, well while we're at it, why don't we tweak the earth's axis to make the weather more pleasant for them.
ES: Y cancelé la pedicura, ¿sí? Aguántate. Estamos acá por los padres de Doug.

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