the world revolves around (someone)

phrase

: someone's life, problems, etc., are more important than other people's

I can't just drop everything to help you. The world doesn't revolve around you, you know.

Examples of the world revolves around (someone) in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

My brother David and his family, my nieces and my nephews, and of course, the one the world revolves around, baby Maya. — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024

Gervais jokes about how everyone on Twitter thinks the world revolves around them. — Zack Sharf, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022

Narcissists have a grandiose notion that the world revolves around them, so your sister-in-law would interpret any action of yours only in relation to her. — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 2 July 2022

Maverick is, at its essence, a film that asks us to believe the world revolves around Tom Cruise. — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 29 May 2022

The French president, who is projected to be reelected for a second five-year term today, is certainly selfish, and arrogant, and seems to think the world revolves around his own apparently endless brilliance and grandeur. — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2022