call the shots
call the tune
wear the trousers

Nobody can be sure which of the two leaders will now call the tune.

It wasn't them who were going to call the tune.

He will dance, but it is I who have called the tune.

If she's calling the tune now, we may hear a different song.

The church bands still use this system today, with tunes called by number rather than name.

Money is power, and for this reason employment continues to call the tune.

And behind the scenes in both parties big money calls the tune.

It was always his erotic life that called the tune.

In the process, they called the tune that the entire industry eventually danced to.