have (one) cold

To have one utterly under control, to the extent that their actions can be dictated. Please don't report me to the headmaster. You have me cold! Once the gangsters were able to blackmail Susan, they had her cold.

have someone cold

have someone at your mercy. US informal

1988 Rodney Hall Kisses of the Enemy He waited in his office for news of violence, knowing that then he would have the troublemakers cold.

词组	have (one) cold
释义	have (one) cold have (one) cold To have one utterly under control, to the extent that their actions can be dictated. Please don't report me to the headmaster. You have me cold! Once the gangsters were able to blackmail Susan, they had her cold. See also: cold, have Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. have someone cold have someone at your mercy. US informal 1988 Rodney Hall Kisses of the Enemy He waited in his office for news of violence, knowing that then he would have the troublemakers cold. See also: cold, have, someone Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: have someone cold have (someone) at (one's) mercy have somebody at your mercy at (someone's) mercy (as) cold as marble (as) cold as any stone as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined inclined twig give it to (one)
随便看	pain-in-the-ass pain in the butt pain-in-the-butt pain in the hole pain-in-the-neck pain in the neck pain in the neck, a pain-in-the-rear pain in the rear painkiller paint paint a black picture (of someone or something) paint a (some kind of) picture of (something) paint a terrible, depressing, rosy, etc. picture paint black paint card painted painted cat painted with the same brush paint in painting paint on paint (one) black paint (oneself) into a corner paint oneself into a corner