pull rank

Danielle Steelの'Five Days in Paris' を読んでいます。
His whole body seemed to be coiled with anticipated tension, he looked like a cobra about to spring. And Peter felt like his prey, as he prepared to defend himself, and the integrity of the company, but Frank had anticipated him, and he was prepared to pull rank if he had to. "I think your're just going to have to trust my judgement here.

"pull rank" の個所ですが、Frankは会社の会長、Peterは社長の身分なので地位を利用して、あるいは立場の優位性で威圧するような意味だと思いますが、辞書で確認します。

・Oxford English Dictionary: Take unfair advantage of one's seniority or privileged position.: ‘someone pulled rank and took my place’

・Collins Dictionary: to make unfair use of your power or position to make people do what you want: The Federal Government threatened to pull rank and override the states with its own legislation.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: to use the power that your position gives you over someone in order to make them do what you want: He doesn't have the authority to pull rank on me.
車を止めるにも "pull off" という表現がありますが、"pull" の使い方は難しい。

P.S. "pull rank" は 2/2/2015 にも取り上げていました。