"have someone by the short hairs" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has someone by the short hairs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having someone by the short hairs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone by the short hairs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone by the short hairs",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> someone by the short hairs"
      },
      "expansion": "have someone by the short hairs (third-person singular simple present has someone by the short hairs, present participle having someone by the short hairs, simple past and past participle had someone by the short hairs)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002 June 7, Martin Peretz, “Power Trip”, in The New Republic, retrieved 2007-10-16",
          "text": "The Saudis know that as long as we consume 7 billion barrels per year (4 billion of them imported from abroad), they have us by the short hairs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have someone in a difficult situation in which he or she is without alternatives and can be controlled."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "alternatives",
          "alternatives"
        ],
        [
          "control",
          "control"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To have someone in a difficult situation in which he or she is without alternatives and can be controlled."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "have the world by the tail"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "have someone by the balls"
        },
        {
          "word": "have someone by the short and curlies"
        },
        {
          "word": "have someone on toast"
        },
        {
          "word": "have someone over a barrel"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "deržátʹ na korotkom povodke",
          "sense": "have someone in a difficult situation",
          "word": "держа́ть на коротком поводке"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "have someone by the short hairs"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has someone by the short hairs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having someone by the short hairs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone by the short hairs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone by the short hairs",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> someone by the short hairs"
      },
      "expansion": "have someone by the short hairs (third-person singular simple present has someone by the short hairs, present participle having someone by the short hairs, simple past and past participle had someone by the short hairs)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "have the world by the tail"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002 June 7, Martin Peretz, “Power Trip”, in The New Republic, retrieved 2007-10-16",
          "text": "The Saudis know that as long as we consume 7 billion barrels per year (4 billion of them imported from abroad), they have us by the short hairs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have someone in a difficult situation in which he or she is without alternatives and can be controlled."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "alternatives",
          "alternatives"
        ],
        [
          "control",
          "control"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To have someone in a difficult situation in which he or she is without alternatives and can be controlled."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "have someone by the balls"
    },
    {
      "word": "have someone by the short and curlies"
    },
    {
      "word": "have someone on toast"
    },
    {
      "word": "have someone over a barrel"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "deržátʹ na korotkom povodke",
      "sense": "have someone in a difficult situation",
      "word": "держа́ть на коротком поводке"
    }
  ],
  "word": "have someone by the short hairs"
}