"in one's back pocket" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008 July 16, David Friend, “New owner to spruce up Bay”, in The Star, Toronto, Canada, retrieved 2019-01-29:",
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          "ref": "2015 June 4, Sophy Ridge, “Angela Merkel is finally having her feminist moment”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2019-01-29:",
          "text": "[S]he bosses around all the blokes in the European Union; has won three elections; and even has a physics degree in her back pocket.",
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