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.
如今购物者占主导地位，如果商店不降价，他们是不会买的。
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.
这是法国风格的隐私法造成的，英国记者们说，而他们只是说对了一半：法国法律使调查记者失去动力，给了政客们控制媒体的手段。
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.
老李先生把儿子和女儿都安插在自己的厂里工作，却从来不让他们管事，因为他想在他活着的时候能够对子女有控制权。

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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