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Brewer's: Boss
a master, is the Dutch baas, head of the household. Hence the great man, chief, a masher, a swell.
“Mr. Stead calls Mr. O'Connor the `Boss of the House.' ”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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