order around

idiom

: to give orders to (someone) : to tell (someone) what to do

You can't just come in here and start ordering people around.

Examples of order around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Eisenbeis pointed out that the FOMC chair can’t order around other members, and recalled a previous chair from the late 1970s, G. William Miller, who tried to ban smoking at the Fed but faced pushback and failed. —Preston Fore, Fortune, 7 July 2025

The roommates began arriving back home and heading to their rooms in the early morning hours, with Kernodle briefly leaving her room to grab a DoorDash order around 4 a.m., Mortensen and Funke told police, according to court documents. —Taylor Romine, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025

The department lifted the shelter-in-place order around 9 p.m. Saturday night, but maintained a Level 2 public health advisory calling for sensitive populations to stay indoors. —Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025

Politicians ordered arrested Meanwhile, more details emerged of the chaotic hours between Yoon’s declaration of martial law around 10:30 p.m. local time Tuesday and the lifting of the order around 4:30 a.m. —Stella Kim, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024

Rhymes for order around

• abound
• aground
• astound
• background
• campground
• clothbound
• confound
• earthbound
• eastbound
• expound
• fairground
• foreground