"rule the roost" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, ch. 3",
          "text": "His was biding his time, and patiently looking forward to the days when he himself would sit authoritative at some board, and talk and direct, and rule the roost, while lesser stars sat round and obeyed.\nNote: Some copies have \"rule the roast\" in this passage."
        },
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          "ref": "1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 16, in The Freelands",
          "text": "Felix (nothing if not modern) had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2004 February 16, Kate Betts, “9 Rei Kawakubo”, in Time",
          "text": "At that moment in fashion, French couturiers ruled the roost.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman",
          "text": "Finn Russell and Owen Farrell kicked two penalties apiece but it was the Scotland stand-off who ruled the roost - despite a ten-minute sin-binning for an attempted trip on England scrum-half Ben Youngs.",
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        "To be the controlling member(s) of a family, organization, or other group."
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        "(idiomatic) To be the controlling member(s) of a family, organization, or other group."
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          "word": "alpha"
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          "word": "call the shots"
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          "word": "wear the trousers"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "olla kukkona tunkiolla"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "rozstawiać po kątach"
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          "word": "manejar el cotarro"
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        },
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        "(idiomatic) To be the controlling member(s) of a family, organization, or other group."
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "olla kukkona tunkiolla"
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