"make the weather" meaning in English

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      "form": "makes the weather",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "making the weather",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "made the weather",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "made the weather",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, page 303",
          "text": "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 more made the weather.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 April 9, Philip Hensher, “Britain without Margaret Thatcher”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2018-08-27",
          "text": "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 Thatcher made the weather.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Peter Marsh, “Did Joseph Chamberlain Really ‘Make the Weather’?”, in I. Cawood, C. Upton, editors, Joseph Chamberlain, page 1",
          "text": "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, \"who made the weather\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 9, Ellen Barry, “Europe: A Drifting UKIP Ousts Leader at Center of Racism Row”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-08-27",
          "text": "\"You cannot get away from the fact that they have made 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.\"",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To be extraordinarily effective, especially when in a position of authority."
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          "effective"
        ],
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          "authority",
          "authority"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly UK, idiomatic) To be extraordinarily effective, especially when in a position of authority."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "make heavy weather"
        }
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        "singular",
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    },
    {
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        "participle",
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    },
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      "form": "made the weather",
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    }
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          "ref": "2008, John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, page 303",
          "text": "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 more made the weather.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2013 April 9, Philip Hensher, “Britain without Margaret Thatcher”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2018-08-27",
          "text": "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 Thatcher made the weather.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Peter Marsh, “Did Joseph Chamberlain Really ‘Make the Weather’?”, in I. Cawood, C. Upton, editors, Joseph Chamberlain, page 1",
          "text": "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, \"who made the weather\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 9, Ellen Barry, “Europe: A Drifting UKIP Ousts Leader at Center of Racism Row”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-08-27",
          "text": "\"You cannot get away from the fact that they have made 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.\"",
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        "(chiefly UK, idiomatic) To be extraordinarily effective, especially when in a position of authority."
      ],
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