upper hand

upper hand or whip hand  {n.}
Controlling power; advantage.
In the third round the champion got the upper hand over his opponent and knocked him out.
The cowboy trained the wild horse so that he finally got the whip hand and tamed the horse.
Categories: hand noun
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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