bossy

bossyboots

Someone who is bossy or controlling. Josh is such a bossyboots, always trying to micromanage my every move.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bossyboots
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • run someone out of town
  • (I've) got to go
  • save someone's skin
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • pillow-biter
  • do someone or something justice
  • out of one's
References in periodicals archive
Bossy is the co-founder of Mid-America Development Partners and Mid-America Real Estate Corporation, both created in 2001.
Chicago Developer David Bossy Working on New Multi-Million-Dollar Development Plan
Then I saw the headline on the Arkansas Democral-Gazette's front-page report on the first day's witnesses in the trial of our former state treasurer: "Shoffner was fist-slammer, bossy, ex-workers testify."
You're not the boss of me
Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded bossy."
Ban Bey's anti-bossy campaign
Bossy realize she needed to ask more questions and be open to learning.
President's column
The witty takes on hard-to-deal-with personality traits, humanized through alliterative names such as Gertrude Grudge, Bob Bossy, and Larry Lazy.
How To Get Along With Difficult People
Synopsis: If you manage someone whom you think is too "bossy" or "opinionated," read this article.
Don't Mislabel Your Employees; Do you manage someone who is too "bossy" or "opinionated"? Those seemingly negative traits may actually provide clues to that employee's talents and strengths
You love her dearly, but that girl can be so bossy! Here's how to get your friendship back in balance.
Who's the boss?
Ruth Ohi, the award-winning illustrator of over 40 children's books, has created two new picture books, Clara and the Bossy and The Couch Was a Castle featuring guinea pig characters and aimed at primary aged children.
Clara and the Bossy
But, at the same time, it was neither overbearing nor bossy. Perhaps its effect is best described as the bearable lightness of history."
A mata of survival
Car bays are defined with blocks of colour rather than the usual bossy lines.
Going underground: this subterranean car park in Graz goes against type to civilise urban parking
The straight talking Scouser certainly looks the part for her role as a bossy pantomime witch in these floor length scarlet robes.
VIVA!: What is she wearing?
It was called The Bossy Christmas Fairies and it was magical.
Real meaning of Christmas is alive and well at school; voice of the north
Since he is usually one of the most moderate of those bossy saints telling me how to live my life, I would like to know what he knows about the holy-making nature of going to work that I do not.
Don't quit your day job: a sixth-century saint can teach you a thing or two about work in the 21st century
In his lectures, collected in this volume, Bossy is aware of Evennett and Hay's contributions and suggests, like them, a new perspective for studies on post-Reformation Europe.
Peace in the Post-Reformation. (Reviews)
Following Bossy, he argues that the resulting system suited the kin-based society of that period, and especially its elite, by ensuring that feuds between kin groups would not be disturbed by the inconven ient ritual requirement of a peaceable gathering for mass each Sunday.
Irish Pilgrimage: Holy wells and popular Catholic devotion. (Reviews)