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单词 wind round one's finger
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to wrap (also wind, twist, turn, etc.) (a person) round one's finger
i. to wrap (also wind, twist, turn, etc.) (a person) round one's finger: to have the ability to make (a person) do whatever one wants; to control or influence (a person). In later use often in to have (a person) wrapped around one's finger and variants. Cf. to wrap (also wind, twist, turn, etc.) (a person) round one's little finger at little finger n. Phrases 1.
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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > make obedient > to one's will
to bring any one to, or have him at, one's bent1575
to wrap (also wind, twist, turn, etc.) (a person) round one's finger1713
1713 Answer to Examiner's Cavils against Barrier Treaty 28 He would wind Torey round his Finger.
1759 Campaign II. x. 73 Egad I can turn mother Slim round my finger.
1822 A. MacLaren Juvenile Friendship ii. i. 13 Glen: I can twist and turn her round my finger as l please.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. v. iii. 227 Margaret..had already turned that functionary round her finger.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. ix. 169 I am sure one could turn him round one's finger.
1936 I. Gershwin He hasn't Thing except Me in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 244/2 Yet he twists me 'round his finger—Funny that it's a rat I adore.
1983 G. M. Sumner in Lyrics (2007) 88 I'll be wrapped around your finger.
1997 Y. M. Murray Locas 184 They knew just how to get their man wrapped tight around their finger.
2008 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Oct. 13 Almost anybody can twist me round their finger.
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to wind (a person, etc.) round one's (little) finger
b. figurative: esp. in to wind (a person, etc.) round one's (little) finger (see to wind (a person) round one's finger at finger n. Phrases 4i, to wind (a person) round one's little finger at little finger n. Phrases 1).
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > have complete control over
windc1374
to bring (a person) above the thumb1469
to have to mastery1480
to have at one's beck1530
to turn and wind1557
to bring any one to, or have him at, one's bent1575
to turn over the thumb1603
to lead in a stringc1616
to hold at school1647
to wind (a person, etc.) round one's (little) finger1698
to twirl (a person) round one's finger1748
to twist (a person) round one's finger1780
to play with ——1827
to have (one) on toast1886
to have (got) by the balls1918
to have the wood onc1926
1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage 279 To play People out of their Senses,..and wind their Passions about their Fingers as they list.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. viii. 190 Irene wound her toils with consummate skill around her ill-fated victim.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard iii. i. 96 My life being wound about you as it is.
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