mandamás
chief honcho ; boss ; head honcho ; honcho ; bossy boots ; gaffer ; leader ; grandee.
'We should be more sympathetic and persuasive with the chief honchos'.
The dependence on bosses for recognition, rewards, and advancement breeds an artificiality of relationship, a need to be polite and agreeable.
Only 17 percent of head honchos say research and development (R&D) drives innovation in their business, a new study has found.
Of course, no one but a few honchos at IBM and Oracle know the real answer.
With the kids tucked into bed, bossy boots left to fill her empty life with some cocktails.
Watford gaffer believes his team's home games hold the key to their ability to survive in the Premiership.
The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
While fleecing someone with a long, sharp butcher's knife, the American grandees pose as though they were performing an act of great generosity.
mandamás, el
big guy, the
big gun, the
top banana, the
Look at him sucking up to the big guys, talking about golf that he really is terrible at, trying to get into the 'boys club'.
Now that they are up to speed, Ron has tracked down the school's big guns to see how things have been rolling along.
I don't mean to oversimplify life, but on some days it seems to me that society divides into two categories: the top bananas and the second bananas.
mandamases, los
top brass, the
Women account for just about 14 per cent of the top brass at companies in India, as against 21 per cent across the world.
ser el mandamás
call + the shots
be the boss
call + the tune
rule + the roost
run + the show
The article is entitled 'Who's calling the shots in the semiconductor industry'.
One of the hardest things about being the boss is that no one tells you what you're doing wrong.
As long as we allow other people to pay the piper, they will continue calling the tune in Africa.
Just as the 19th century belonged to England and the 20th century to America, so the 21st century will be China's turn to set the agenda and rule the roost.
This might happen organically as a younger cohort replaces the boomers currently running the show.
