cotarro
alborotar el cotarro
make + trouble
As President Bush's second term winds down, this is no time for him to be making trouble for his successor.
amo del cotarro, el
cock-of-the-walk
As far as he could see, he was cock of the walk: many of the men in Sunset suffered from diseases that Horace had so far escaped.
dirigir el cotarro
call + the shots
be the boss
call + the tune
rule + the roost
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.
todo el cotarro
the whole works
the whole shebang
everything and the kitchen sink
the whole enchilada
the whole (kit and) caboodle
the whole nine yards
the whole shooting match
the whole banana
lock, stock and barrel
The jet ultimately shot up fully vertically - at which point the wings snapped off and the whole works careened down into the ocean.
Here the goal was to use classical and quantum physics along with particle physics to describe aspects of the astrophysical universe, i.e. the whole shebang.
You have to remember that everything and the kitchen sink has been thrown at stimulating this economy and the jobs picture still remains weak.
Many of the building blocks for this infrastructure are already in place, but the whole enchilada is far from finished.
To get the whole kit and caboodle working required degrees in electrical engineering and computer science.
They're going to have department stores, and restaurants, and movie theatres, and bowling alleys, the whole nine yards, and Heaven knows what else.
Which means I'd give the whole shooting match just to be back where I was before I quit sleeping under the stars and come into the hen-coops.
Finally, the big bang theory posits that our universe began from nothing, that the whole banana started from zero within what's called a true vacuum.
They then moved out of London to a council house in Basingstoke and they still live in it, but they own it now, lock, stock and barrel.
