have sth in hand
to have something well organized or under control:
The police have the situation in hand.
How come there's a problem? I thought you had everything in hand .
mainly UK If you have something in hand, you have not yet used it and it is still available:
I had enough money in hand to buy a new car.
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Controlling and being in charge
- aggrandize
- assume
- assumption
- authoritative
- balance of power
- divide
- dominant
- have sb by the balls idiom
- have sb eating out of your hand idiom
- have sb in the palm of your hand idiom
- have/hold the whip hand idiom
- heel
- high-handed
- hook
- pull
- pull rank idiom
- pull the strings idiom
- putty
- regimentation
- rein
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Managing and organizing
Also, extra, and in addition