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单词 to get the goods on
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to get (also have) the goods on
b. to get (also have) the goods on: to obtain (or possess) information about (a person) which may be used to the detriment of that person, giving one power or control over him or her; (also occasionally more generally) to have an advantage or superiority over.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > have or get (someone) at a disadvantage
to have at avail1470
to catch, have, hold, take (one) at (a or the) vantagec1510
to gain of1548
to be to the forehand with1558
to have (take) on (in, at) the lurch1591
to get the sun of1598
to have (also get) a good hand against1600
to take (have, etc.) at a why-nota1612
to weather on or upon1707
to have the laugh on a person1767
to have a (or the) pull of (also over, on)1781
to get to windward of1783
to have the bulge on1841
to give points to1854
to get (have) the drop on1869
to hold over1872
to have an (or the) edge on1896
to get (also have) the goods on1903
to get (or have) the jump on1912
to have (got) by the balls1918
1903 St. Louis Med. Rev. 47 240/1 So far he has ‘got the goods’ on 65 of them, which means that he has discovered that number practicing without a state certificate.
1913 A. Bennett Regent i. v. 134 You got the goods on her. And she deserved it.
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child ii. xiv. 270 I'd been in a ring-seat and had the goods on him same as if I'd taken a snap-shot.
1928 Observer 15 July 18/2 ‘Well, the Old Country sure has the goods on everyone else,’ said one of them [sc. Canadian teachers].
1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) xiii. 263 He had a sudden inkling that they would have liked to get the goods on Mulcahy.
1984 D. Koontz Darkfall i. i. 40 We figured if we could get the goods on him, get enough evidence to guarantee him a prison term, he'd crack and cooperate rather than do hard time.
1997 E. White Farewell Symphony (1998) vii. 283 Would he want someone floating around in the small world of magazine publishing who had the goods on him?
2009 N.Y. Mag. 23 Feb. 133/1 At one point, the hero is this close to getting the goods on the big bad banker.
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