make the weather

Verb

make the weather (third-person singular simple present makes the weather, present participle making the weather, simple past and past participle made the weather)

1. (UK, idiomatic) To be extraordinarily effective, especially when in a position of authority.
   • And at three o'clock this afternoon: Eureka! He had it in his hand, a flimsy brown file plucked from the catacombs of the public prosecutor's office. It was marked for destruction but by a miracle had escaped the flames. Bachmann had once more made the weather.2008, John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, →ISBN, page 303
   • To try to imagine what the country would have looked like without the dominant politician of the past 60 years is a dizzying exercise. Margaret Thatcher made the weather.2013 April 9, Philip Hensher, “Britain without Margaret Thatcher”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 27 Aug 2018