upper hand

[upper hand] or [whip hand] {n.}

Controlling power; advantage.

* /In the third round the champion got the upper hand over his opponent and knocked him out./

* /The cowboy trained the wild horse so that he finally got the whip hand and tamed the horse./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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