boss

chef, supérieur

Personne qui dirige ton travail et te dit ce que tu dois faire.

En anglais simple : The person who directs your work and tells you what to do.

• My boss is friendly.
• I asked my boss for a day off.
• Our bosses discussed the new work schedule.

Synonymes : manager, supervisor

Contraires : subordinate

Expressions courantes : my boss, new boss, ask your boss

patron

Personne qui dirige une entreprise ou qui en est propriétaire.

En anglais simple : The person who runs or owns a business.

• The boss owns three shops.
• Company bosses agreed to raise wages.
• Our new boss plans to expand the business.

Synonymes : head, chief, owner

Expressions courantes : company boss, big boss, factory boss

chef politique

Personne influente qui contrôle un groupe politique dans une région donnée.

En anglais simple : A powerful person who controls a political group in a particular area.

• The party boss chose the candidate.
• Local bosses controlled most of the votes.
• The mayor challenged the district’s powerful political boss.

Synonymes : leader, chief

Expressions courantes : party boss, political boss, local boss

patronne, femme

Façon plaisante de désigner son épouse, en suggérant que c’est elle qui prend les décisions.

En anglais simple : A humorous name for someone’s wife, suggesting she makes the decisions.

• I must ask the boss; she makes our weekend plans.
• My wife, the boss, chose the hotel.
• The boss says we need new curtains, so my wife and I are shopping.

Synonymes : wife

Expressions courantes : the boss, ask the boss

donner des ordres, commander

Dire aux autres ce qu’ils doivent faire d’une manière agaçante ou autoritaire.

En anglais simple : To tell people what to do in an annoying or controlling way.

• Don’t boss me around.
• She bossed everyone about all afternoon.
• Why does he always boss his friends around?

Comment l'utiliser : boss someone around/about (My brother keeps trying to boss me around.)

Synonymes : order around, push around

Expressions courantes : boss someone around, boss someone about

génial, super

Très bon ou impressionnant, dans un langage familier.

En anglais simple : Very good or impressive.

• That bike is boss.
• She wore a boss jacket.
• Your new sound system looks really boss.

Synonymes : great, excellent, cool

Contraires : terrible

Expressions courantes : a boss car, look boss, really boss