His was biding his time, and patiently looking forward to the days when he himself would sit authoritative at some board, and talk and direct, and rule the roost, while lesser stars sat round and obeyed.
Note: Some copies have "rule the roast" in this passage.

Felix (nothing if not modern) had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost.

At that moment in fashion, French couturiers ruled the roost.

Finn Russell and Owen Farrell kicked two penalties apiece but it was the Scotland stand-off who ruled the roost - despite a ten-minute sin-binning for an attempted trip on England scrum-half Ben Youngs.

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