have a hold over

Idioms  

1. Also, have a hold on. Have a controlling influence over. For example, Blackmailers have a hold over their victims, or, as Shakespeare put it in The Merchant of Venice (4:1): “The law has yet another hold on you.” [Late 1500s]

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have a hold over

I have a hold over you besides that of your oath.

From The Haunted Room A Tale by A. L. O. E.

The fact is he and some one else have a hold over me.

From A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

The words of Caryll Carleigh came back to her: "If he was dead he'd have a hold over you that would keep you straight."

From The Tigress by Anne Warner

The priests alone have any sympathy with their sufferings, and naturally alone have a hold over them.

From The Life of Gordon, Volume II by Demetrius Charles Boulger

If their rent were in arrear, would the merchant not have a hold over them?-He,

From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie