in control.

It looks like those who oppose environmental controls are going to be in the saddle.

Related vocabulary: in the driver's seat

Etymology: based on the idea that someone who is in the saddle (= seat fastened on the back of a horse) controls the horse's movements

• spur something on
• squared away
• square meal
• square off
• square peg
• square peg in a round hole
• square shoulders
• square the circle
• square with
• square with something
• square your shoulders
• squeaky clean
• squeal like a stuck pig
• squeeze out
• squeeze out of
• squeeze out of someone
• squeeze out of something
• squeeze someone out
• squeeze someone out of
• squeeze someone out of something
• squeeze something out
• squeeze something out of
• squeeze something out of someone
• squeeze something out of something
• stab in the back