颐指气使的英文：
[Literal Meaning]
chin/indicate/countenance/order
to order people by gesture

[解释]
颐指：动下巴示意、指挥别人；气使：用神情、气色支使人。不说话而用面部表情示意。形容有权势的人指挥别人的傲慢态度。

[Explanation]
to be insufferably arrogant

[例子]
有些老板对员工颐指气使，一点尊重都没有。

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

[英文等价词]
to lay down the law

参考例句：
  • It really gets me when she starts bossing people around.
    她颐指气使地对人，真叫我厌恶。
  • He is a stolid man, in his sixties, with a mustache and an authoritative air.
    他神情淡漠，六十多岁，留着小胡子，一付颐指气使的神气。
  • No man but a very impudent dog indeed can as freely command what is in another’s house as if it were his own
    除了非常无礼的鲁莽家伙，决没有人在别人的屋子里会像在自己家里那样随心所欲，颐指气使。

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