► 名詞
上司 [(1)じょうし] meaning: manager rank: 2
☆ 上司がバカだと仕事が嫌になる ⇨ You will hate your job when your boss is an idiot (☛ A manager directly above you. Your direct boss)
More examples:
- 彼等は上司に媒酌してくれるよう頼んだ ⇨ They asked their boss to be the witness of their wedding
- 上司が余りに強引だと下の者は萎縮する ⇨ When a boss is too iron-fisted, the subordinates will be scared to take initiatives
- 上司の横暴に怒りが炸裂した ⇨ My anger exploded against the authoritarian way of the boss
- 彼はいつも上司におべっかを使っている ⇨ He is always brown-nosing his boss
- 彼の上司は彼の提案の援護射撃をした ⇨ His boss provided supporting fire for his proposal
- 彼はいつも上司にへいこらしている ⇨ He is always a yes-man to his boss
- あいつは上司におべんちゃらばかり言っている ⇨ He is always throwing praises to his boss
- 彼は宴会で酔って悪乗りして上司を怒らせた ⇨ He got drunk and went out of the line at the party and angered his boss
- 彼は上司の言いなりだ ⇨ He does everything his boss tells him without questioning
- 彼は上司の冗談に馬鹿笑いする ⇨ He laughs like an idiot at his boss’s jokes
- 彼は上司の機嫌を取るのが旨い ⇨ He is good at humoring, placating, his boss
- うざったい上司 ⇨ An annoying boss
- 彼はいつも上司の顔色を窺っている ⇨ He is always fearfully checking the color of his boss’s face, the mood of his boss
- 愚かな上司に部下はやる気を殺がれた ⇨ The stupid boss ruined the morals of his subordinates
- 彼は上司に楯突いた ⇨ He rebelled against his boss