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单词 to have a pull of
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to 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).
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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.
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