rule the roast

English

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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