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Definition of Call the tune
1. Verb. Exercise authority or be in charge. "Who is calling the shots in this house?"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Call The Tune
Literary usage of Call the tune
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Co-operative Credit for the United States by Henry William Wolff (1917)
"since it is the Government which pays the piper, it is the Government also which
should call the tune. In Ireland the great contention now is whether all ..."
2. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"... call the tune the Dancing Hobby Horses, With a thump, etc. Sing not High
English in Low Dutch, Though now our foes are truly such, With a thump, etc. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1904)
"More directly than ever the public is to pay the piper, and it will therefore
call the tune. But let it be careful to call the right tune. PS BURRELL. ..."
4. Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American Library by General Meeting, American Library Association (1904)
"subscribe, much too freely and willingly, to the pernicious and illogical doctrine,
that as the ratepayer pays the piper he should also call the tune; ..."
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