頤指氣使的英文：
[Literal Meaning]
chin/indicate/countenance/order
to order people by gesture

[解釋]
頤指：動下巴示意、指揮別人；氣使：用神情、氣色支使人。不說話而用面部表情示意。形容有權(quán)勢的人指揮別人的傲慢態(tài)度。

[Explanation]
to be insufferably arrogant

[例子]
有些老板對員工頤指氣使，一點(diǎn)尊重都沒有。

[Example]
Some bosses are insufferably arrogant to their staff and have no respect toward them.

[英文等價詞]
to lay down the law

參考例句：
  • It really gets me when she starts bossing people around.
    她頤指氣使地對人，真叫我厭惡。
  • He is a stolid man, in his sixties, with a mustache and an authoritative air.
    他神情淡漠，六十多歲，留著小胡子，一付頤指氣使的神氣。
  • No man but a very impudent dog indeed can as freely command what is in another’s house as if it were his own
    除了非常無禮的魯莽家伙，決沒有人在別人的屋子里會像在自己家里那樣隨心所欲，頤指氣使。

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