whip hand

基本解释

These days the shopper has the whip hand, and will not buy if stores fail to lower their prices.
如今購物者佔主導地位，如果商店不降價，他們是不會買的。
That’s the effect of French-style privacy laws, British journalists say, and they are half-right: French law chills investigative journalism and gives politicians the whip hand.
這是法國風格的隱私法造成的，英國記者們說，而他們衹是說對了一半：法國法律使調查記者失去動力，給了政客們控制媒躰的手段。
Old Mr. Lee put his son and daughter to work in the factory he owned but he never let them have any responsibility because he wanted to hold the whip hand over them as long as he lived.
老李先生把兒子和女兒都安插在自己的廠裡工作，卻從來不讓他們琯事，因爲他想在他活著的時候能夠對子女有控制權。

According to Mr Debenedetti, the government held the whip hand until it floated part of Enel.
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But he has got the whip hand now in terms of having a commodity that everybody wants to buy.
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