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short hairs
noun
▶ have someone by the short hairs
to hold someone at a disadvantage; to exercise complete control over someone UK, 1888
A figurative use of the literal meaning “to hold by the pubic hair”.- “We had ’im by the short hair,” the little one said. — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 60, 1948
- All right, Sheik, you got us by the short hair, but you know you can’t get away. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 137, 1959
- I got you by the short hairs now. I’m in and you’re out. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 27, 1963
- That Jefferson Tatum–man, has he got the world by the short hairs! — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 6, 1964
- [C]aught by the short hairs by the fickle finger of fate[.] — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 234, 1968
- The government still had me by the short hairs. — Odie Hawkins, Scars and Memories, p. 93, 1987
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