order around someone
— phrasal verb with order us
/ˈɔr·dər/ verb
› to tell someone what to do in an annoying way:
The older waitresses didn’t talk to her except to order her around.
(Definition of “order around someone” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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