Meaning of make the weather | Babel Free

Definitions

To be extraordinarily effective, especially when in a position of authority.

UK, idiomatic

Examples

“And at three o'clock this afternoon: Eureka! He had it in his hand, a flimsy brown file plucked from the catacombs of the public prosecutor's office. It was marked for destruction but by a miracle had escaped the flames. Bachmann had once more made the weather.”

“To try to imagine what the country would have looked like without the dominant politician of the past 60 years is a dizzying exercise. Margaret Thatcher made the weather.”

“Winston Churchill recalled Joseph Chamberlain as "incomparably the most live, sparkling, insurgent, compulsive figure in British affairs" at the end of the nineteenth century. He was "the one", said Churchill, "who made the weather".”

“"You cannot get away from the fact that they have made the weather, politically, on two issues, on forcing the referendum and on the question of migration," he said. "They’ve had more of an influence than you would expect from a party that only won one parliamentary election."”

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