have / gain the upper hand

have / gain the upper hand to have more power than someone else, so that you are able to control a situation占上风; 处于有利地位; 获得控制权:•Police have gained the upper hand over the drug dealers in the area.警方在与该地区的毒品贩子的较量中占据了上风。

• copycat
• gold-tipped / steel-tipped / rubber-tipped etc
• back-paddled
• sandwich beam
• power-actuated pressure relief valve
• stimulated-emission device
• without (a) doubt
• renovation
• energid
• childcares
• line sth ↔ up
• set sb about
• conic sections
• machining
• jnr.
• indenization
• disgorgement
• misclassifying
• the same
• chantant
• sth went out with the ark
• dellas
• adaptive optics
• forcipate trophus
• Duveneck, Frank
• Bruno,Saint
• be in the soup
• curing
• request stops
• realizability
• pirn
• Delta Aquarids
• Roger
• milkfishes
• tin chloride
• Devonshire
• black-bellied plovers
• Minnesotian
• cryptos
• valid
• primes
• off color
• Bostonese
• Zener breakdown
• coopery
• engin
• cut one's leg
• chest hardware
• miraculous
• rockhound
• empty field myopia
• vulvitis
• Schwarzschild sphere
• molecular hybridization
• communicative
• run a risk
• hoes
• sialidases
• double-dealer
• corrugated fasteners
• poly U
• participational
• bleeding Kansas
• emolumentary
• hydrography
• reconcentrations
• -phyte
• AM
• isolated point
• pct
• larghettos
• digger wasps
• make shift
• come/crawl out of the woodwork
• end-for-end
• 3-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid
• three-wood
• riveters
• phosgenes
• scrumptious
• hotchkisses
• co-agglutination
• microconstituent
• egg-plum
• slat conveyor
• do-it-yourselfers
• appraisings
• psychologies
• Garrison, William Lloyd
• cytomembrane
• proprio motu
• tone sth ↔ down
• miniaturise
• motoneuron
• pollen index
• manic
• refines
• negatine
• Cosmo
• exculpation