throw one's weight about informal
throw one's weight around informal

Throwing your weight about as if you counted for something.

Make yourself known, throw your weight about, whatever, but get it sorted once and for all - or leave.

"No throwing your weight about, and barking your head off!"

"You just have to throw your weight about!"

Why don't you throw your weight about a bit?"

"Not with you throwing your weight about, Archchancellor!"

No need to call me 'sir' when we're there--you throw your weight about.

'Throwing your weight about!

Do not use the opportunity to throw your weight about but to enable your own group to handle whatever task or problem they have been allotted in the most efficient manner.

I Brannan goes off on holiday and leaves us at the mercy of a young clever cO like you, throwing your weight about and spoiling people's pleasure.

'Tell them what you like - lie, bluff, throw your weight about, threaten them in the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the Vietcong forces, General Kweiling, who has countersigned your written authority and will punish those who disobey.

And there was no way you could throw your weight around.

So you're still just posing and throwing your weight around.

But ever since you became captain, you've been throwing your weight around.

"Will you hold on and stop throwing your weight around?

You've been throwing your weight around quite a while now and I don't see any laws.

"Why do you think you can throw your weight around, young man?"

"I was just going to say that anyway, you didn't have to throw your weight around."

People have got to understand that as a legal adviser you can't throw your weight around.

You throw your weight around like a legate of the Empire.

"You have no right pushing your way in here, throwing your weight around."

"All of you throwing your weight around with that high and mighty federal government attitude.

You control the sled by throwing your weight around and stepping on the brakes, of which there are two.

"Don't try to throw your weight around with me," Logan snapped.

For someone off the case, you sure throw your weight around," Cliff growled.

When pretending to be German, throw your weight around and add an extra dash of arrogance.

So don't bother to throw your weight around; it won't go.

You want to stand out in the assessor's mind but not as an insensitive bully trying to throw your weight around.

If you try and throw your weight around, force me into something I don't really want to do, then we're both going to regret it.'

Throwing your weight around like the megabuck you are?"

"You're used to throwing your weight around, but you won't throw it around here!

"You've got to learn how to be a Lensman or else quit throwing your weight around like you did a while back.

But just arbitrarily throwing your weight around?

Keep throwing your weight around and you'll find yourself going back to your boss and telling him you failed.

"Just because you used to be a spaceship commander doesn't give you the right to throw your weight around here.

You big hold thanes think that you can throw your weight around anywhere, don't you?