get your claws into someone
get (one's) claws into (someone)
To exert one's influence over another person. Bobby's new girlfriend must have gotten her claws into him—have you seen the way he's dressing these days?
See also: claw, get
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
get your claws into someone
1. If someone gets their claws into you, they control or influence you in a selfish way for their own advantage. The Tigers want to get their claws into 20-year old striker Martin Carruthers from Aston Villa. Note: Other verbs can be used instead of get. These people had their claws into him and he didn't know how to get clear of them.
2. If a woman gets her claws into a man, she manages to start a relationship with him. Sadly for Jackie, Amanda got her claws into Gavin first. Note: Other verbs can be used instead of get. She wasted no time in hooking her claws into Des. Note: You usually use this expression in a disapproving way.
See also: claw, get, someone
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- get (one's) claws into (someone)
- get your claws into
- get your claws into somebody
- (one's) claws are showing
- claw
- one's claws are showing
- exert
- exert (oneself)
- exert oneself
- hold sway