發號施令 [发号－－]

Jyutping faat3 hou6 si1 ling6
Pinyin fā hào shī lìng

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. to boss people around (idiom)
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
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Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. phrase, figuratively, idiomatic
    to boss people around
  2. phrase, idiomatic
    to issue orders
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    我党二十几年来，天天做群众工作，近十几年来，天天讲群众路线。我们历来主张革命要依靠人民群众，大家动手，反对只依靠少数人发号施令。
    我黨二十幾年來，天天做羣眾工作，近十幾年來，天天講羣眾路線。我們歷來主張革命要依靠人民羣眾，大家動手，反對只依靠少數人發號施令。
    wǒ dǎng èr shí jǐ nián lái ， tiān tiān zuò qún zhòng gōng zuò ， jìn shí jǐ nián lái ， tiān tiān jiǎng qún zhòng lù xiàn ． wǒ men lì lái zhǔ zhāng gé mìng yào yī kào rén mín qún zhòng ， dà jiā dòng shǒu ， fǎn duì zhǐ yī kào shǎo shù rén fā hào shī lìng ．
    • For over twenty years our Party has carried on mass work every day, and for the past dozen years it has talked about the mass line every day. We have always maintained that the revolution must rely on the masses of the people, on everybody's taking a hand, and have opposed relying merely on a few persons issuing orders.