have/gain the upper hand

ADVANTAGEto have more power than someone else, so that you are able to control a situation 占上风；处于有利地位

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。

Examples from the Corpus

have/gain the upper hand• But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand.• If the two had been introduced simultaneously, the larger one would invariably have the upper hand.• Now White gains the upper hand.• The world can only pray that they do not gain the upper hand.• Under the proposed law, she would have the upper hand.• We must destroy them now, while we yet have the upper hand.• When you have a gun you have the upper hand, it makes you feel big, bad.• Police have gained the upper hand over the drug dealers in the area.• Officials said they might reopen the freeway at 5 p. m. today, perhaps sooner if firefighters gain the upper hand overnight.

→ have/gain the upper hand at upper1(1)

词汇	have/gain the upper hand
释义	have/gain the upper hand have/gain the upper hand ADVANTAGEto have more power than someone else, so that you are able to control a situation 占上风；处于有利地位 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。 Examples from the Corpus have/gain the upper hand• But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand.• If the two had been introduced simultaneously, the larger one would invariably have the upper hand.• Now White gains the upper hand.• The world can only pray that they do not gain the upper hand.• Under the proposed law, she would have the upper hand.• We must destroy them now, while we yet have the upper hand.• When you have a gun you have the upper hand, it makes you feel big, bad.• Police have gained the upper hand over the drug dealers in the area.• Officials said they might reopen the freeway at 5 p. m. today, perhaps sooner if firefighters gain the upper hand overnight. → have/gain the upper hand at upper1(1)
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