call the tune

常見(jiàn)例句

You are the one who call the tune in this house.
在這裡，你說(shuō)了算。
Q: If the Gates Foundation doesn’t actually do anything, to what extent does it “call the tune”?
問(wèn)：如果蓋茨基金會(huì)實(shí)際上沒(méi)做什麼，那麼它在何種程度上“做主”？
But smaller countries have seen, in the treatment of Greece and Italy, how France and Germany get to call the tune: “intergovernmentalism” leaves them vulnerable.
但是較小的國(guó)家通過(guò)對(duì)希臘和意大利的処理方法，看到了法國(guó)和德國(guó)口中“跨政府主義”的論調(diào)將會(huì)使自身變得更加脆弱。

As a general rule, I can't call the tune of who performs it.
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He who pays the piper gets to call the tune.
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Television didn't always call the tune.
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