power trip in English

noun
1
a self-aggrandizing quest for ever-increasing control over others.
He stressed: ‘We are not control freaks and we are not on a power trip , but the case that we want to put to the Executive would undoubtedly be stronger if we were all united under one body.’

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1. Gary: You're on some kind of weird power trip, man.

2. It's a power trip. I want to make important decisions.

3. My sister always bosses me around. She's on a power trip.

4. Is it your boss that you want or a power trip?

5. She's been on a real power trip since she started her own business.

6. Thus, the power trip alleviates their insecurity, and they revel in this feeling.

7. Most of them seem to get a power trip from their ritualistic behaviour.

8. The biggest star perk, and the biggest power trip, must be the private plane.