shot caller
shot caller
One who dictates how a situation or agenda proceeds, as from a position of authority in a gang, group, or organization. The boss is the shot-caller around here—we have to do what he says. It took me a long time to become the shot caller, kid. You don't get this kind of power overnight.
See also: shot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- call (all) the shots
- call all the shots
- call the
- call the shots
- call the shots/the tune
- call the tune
- piper
- gang
- gang up
- suited