pull rank

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To assert one's authority over a subordinate who disagrees.
    — Graduate schools teach students to use footnotes as authorities — barriers to anyone's questioning the author's conclusions. Professionalism then becomes a matter of pulling rank: the person who has the most footnotes has the last say.

词形变化

pulls rank present,singular,third-person pulling rank participle,present pulled rank participle,past pulled rank past
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