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WotD: Lord it over
The phrase lord it over (someone) doesn’t deal with bullies; it refers more to the bossy type.
You know the kind of person I mean.
Every classroom has one or two people who like to think they are better than everyone else, giving them the right to tell others what to do.
In school, whenever my class was split into groups to do a project, I always ended up in the group with a girl who would lord it over everyone else.
She’d tell us what to do and how to do it.
Then, if it was going to take a few days, she’d take our materials home and rewrite everything the way ‘she’ wanted it.
At first, that would make me angry.
I didn’t want her lording it over me.
I wanted to do my work and be graded on my merit.
Then, one day, it dawned on me.
I had captured the Golden Snitch.
That’s one for you Harry Potter fans out there.
What the hell was I doing?
If she wanted to lord it over us and do all the work herself, who am I to argue with that?
From then on, I did everything I could to get into her group.
She’d boss us around a bit, then fix all of our shoddy work.
All we had to do was sign our name, and we’d all get a little star for ‘our’ work.
Take advantage of those who want to lord it over you.
I did, and I tell you, kindergarten was the best year of my school life.
Her dad took a job in another province the next year, and my fingerpainting skills went downhill after that.
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