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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