| 单词 | to have the whip hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have the whip hand (of) 2. figurative phr. to have the whip hand (of): to have the advantage or upper hand (of), control. Hence in similar phr. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (transitive)] > prevail over by superior authority overrule1576 overtop1584 predominate1590 oversway1593 monarch1600 predominize1648 to have the whip hand (of)1680 predominec1721 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] overcomeeOE forecomec1000 overwieldlOE masterc1225 overmaistrie1340 overmatcha1375 overpassa1382 surmount1390 to have the fairer (of)c1400 maistriec1400 overmasterc1425 winc1440 overc1485 bestride1526 rixlec1540 overreach1555 control1567 overmate1567 govern1593 to give (a person) the lurch1598 get1600 to gain cope of1614 top1633 to fetch overa1640 down1641 to have the whip hand (of)1680 carberry1692 to cut down1713 to be more than a match for1762 outflank1773 outmaster1799 outgeneral1831 weather1834 best1839 fore-reach1845 to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849 scoop1850 euchrec1866 bemaster1871 negotiate1888 to do down1900 to get (someone) wetc1926 lick1946 1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions ii. 8 When once they are got into the Saddle, and have the whip-hand of the poor Laity. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade Pref. sig. C8 Before the Dutch get too much the whip-hand of us. 1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Rudens iv. iv, in tr. Plautus Comedies 204 A silent Woman has always the whip Hand of a Talker. 1849 T. De Quincey Vision Sudden Death in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 745/1 He always courted my conversation, in which art I..had the whip-hand of him. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters viii. 200 He has a secret of her own, and this gives him the whip-hand of her. 1884 H. R. Haggard Dawn I. xiv. 203 For the sake of my own safety, I dare not abandon the whip hand I have of you. 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 22 Dec. 2/1 Its objective will be to outstrip the Marshall plan and so to gain the political whiphand over Europe. 1951 F. Yerby Woman called Fancy (1952) xvi. 302 In that election year of 1894, the white vote was so hopelessly divided that the blacks..held the whip hand. 1974 Howard Jrnl. 14 49 The white population who have for so many centuries held, both literally and metaphorically, the whip hand. 1977 M. Thatcher in Observer 25 Sept. 10/1 If trade unions hold the whip hand, upon whose back does the lash fall? 1985 Times 26 Jan. 21/2 Sir Owen, however, still has the whip hand: he has the money and can bail the banks out of the whole complex exercise. < as lemmas |
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