rule the roast
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Verb
rule the roast (third-person singular simple present rules the roast, present participle ruling the roast, simple past and past participle ruled the roast)
- Archaic form of rule the roost.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
- “roast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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