VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Call the Tune

Meaning:

Making important decisions and controlling a situation.

Examples:

  • From now on, I call the tune and you follow orders.
  • Will we allow Russia to call the tune there?
  • Hey, you call the tune, I'll play it.
  • You call the tune.
  • No longer is the U.S. able to call the tune, but nevertheless their role will be of significant importance.
  • Regional forces competing with each other ought not call the tune, as currently seems to be the case in the presidential election.
  • Why is the Commission dragging its heels in an area in which it holds all the cards and where it can set the pace, call the tune?
  • Democracies also have a problem here because our educational establishments rely predominantly on the state for their funding and he who pays the piper seeks to call the tune.