wear the

pants/trousers Informal

To exercise controlling authority in a household.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
MaËLys	-	French
Kaimana	-	Hawaiian
Ludo	-	Dutch
Irina	ee-REE-nah (Russian), EE-ree-nah (Finnish)	Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Finnish, Georgian
Noreen	['nɔ:ri:n]
Jessica	JES-i-kə (English)	English, French, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese