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pull rank

verb

Definitions

  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.
    • And don't try pulling rank again: your answer, not your age, will determine your fate!
    • You can definitely pull rank on me on this —

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