单词 | to have a pull of |
释义 | > as lemmasto have a (or the) pull of (also over, on) a. The power or capacity to pull (in a non-physical sense) instead of being pulled; the fact of possessing an advantage over another person or thing. Formerly esp. in to have a (or the) pull of (also over, on). Now rare except as in sense 10b. the pull of the table: (Gambling) the advantage possessed by a dealer or banker (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > advantage over another privilegec1390 advantagec1405 vantage1523 overmatch1542 odds1596 pull1781 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 1781 J. Burgoyne Lord of Manor iii. i. 61 Oh, you'll have quite the pull of me in employment. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 198 Pull, an important advantage possessed by one party over another. 1844 Rep. Sel. Comm. Gaming 82 in Parl. Papers 1844 6 94 According to the fair calculation of the game, when fairly played, either pour or contre the man who plays, every time the dice are thrown a stake of 100 l. ought, by the fair pull of the table, to lose 100 l. at the end of about two hours and six minutes. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. iii. 24 That they may know what their chances are, and who naturally has the pull over them. 1890 T. H. Huxley in Life (1900) II. xv. 255 I think, on the whole, I have the pull of him. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 131 There's no particular pull in it. 1905 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 107 There were certain collective advantages known as ‘the pull of the table’, which made the running of a faro-bank a very profitable concern. 1907 H. Lawson in C. Mann Henry Lawson's Best Stories (1966) 142 ‘Well,’ said Tom Hall, ‘supposing we do take up a collection for him, he'd be too damned proud to take it.’ ‘But that's where we've got the pull on him,’ said Michell. 1931 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 12 Apr. in Yours, Plum (1990) ii. 80 She wrote a story and sent it in to the American Magazine without any name on it, so that it got no pull from the fact that I am writing for the American. 1933 E. Philpotts Captain's Curio xi. 253 That's where he thinks he's got the pull on us. He doesn't dream we have a surprise for him. < as lemmas |
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