| | # {{idiomatic}} To have someone in a [[difficult]] [[situation]] in which he or she is without [[alternatives]] and can be [[control]]led. | | # {{idiomatic}} To have someone in a [[difficult]] [[situation]] in which he or she is without [[alternatives]] and can be [[control]]led. |
| | #* {{RQ:Wodehouse Offing|XIX|Beginning with a curt "Listen, Buster," she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it, and judging from the loud buzzing noises that came over the wire, clearly audible to me though now standing in the background, it was evident that the nub was not escaping him. They were the buzzing noises of a man slowly coming to the realization that a woman's hand '''had got him by the short hairs'''.}} | | #* {{RQ:Wodehouse Offing|XIX|Beginning with a curt "Listen, Buster," she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it, and judging from the loud buzzing noises that came over the wire, clearly audible to me though now standing in the background, it was evident that the nub was not escaping him. They were the buzzing noises of a man slowly coming to the realization that a woman's hand '''had got him by the short hairs'''.}} |
| - | #*'''2002''', Martin Peretz, "[http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020617&s=diarist061702 Power Trip]," ''The New Republic'', 7 Jun., | + | #*'''2002''' June 7, Martin Peretz, "[http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020617&s=diarist061702 Power Trip]," ''The New Republic'' <small>(retrieved 16 Oct. 2007)</small>: |
| | #*:The Saudis know that as long as we consume 7 billion barrels per year (4 billion of them imported from abroad), they '''have''' us '''by the short hairs'''. | | #*:The Saudis know that as long as we consume 7 billion barrels per year (4 billion of them imported from abroad), they '''have''' us '''by the short hairs'''. |
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