Take unfair advantage of one's seniority or privileged position.
‘someone pulled rank and took my place’
‘The coach pulls rank and throws somebody out of their seat.’
‘The phone lines are soon filled, and most of the stories have a common theme: The junior senator pulling rank on one of his constituents, breaking in line, demanding to pay less, or ducking out before the bill arrives.’
‘So who do you think you're kidding by pulling rank on me?’
‘When pulling rank fails to get him off the hook, Wade resorts to desperate measures to escape justice.’
‘When Ricky broke his arm and was kept waiting because of insurance concerns, Melissa finally pulled rank as a legislator's wife and got her family added to his state coverage - at a cost of about $300 a month.’
‘The chairman pulled rank, as they so often do in such open and shut cases, and persuaded his underlings he was entitled to enter his court.’
‘For the next few days, he denied he had tried to pull rank.’
‘The skipper, to his credit, doesn't just pull rank and yell at him.’
‘Papa, a captain when he left the reserves, still knew how to pull rank.’
‘Sometimes you just have to pull rank because you are the adult.’
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