"whip hand" meaning in English

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      "glosses": [
        "The hand in which a horse rider holds the whip."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1876, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister, page 271",
          "text": "Of course I was a fool. My father has the whip hand of me, because he has money and I have none, and it was simply kicking against the pricks to speak as I did.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, L. A. Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet, page 152",
          "text": "Even the purest of all the Lamaist sects—the Ge-lug-pa—are thorough-paced devil-worshippers, and value Buddhism chiefly because it gives them the whip-hand over the devils.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Phillip Inman, As UK economy recovers, employers remain reluctant to increase wages, The Guardian",
          "text": "Few workers are unionised, and in the UK's increasingly flexible labour market, where it is almost impossible to quit a job and claim unemployment benefits, where zero hour contracts are still a feature and where self-employment is on the rise, employers have the whip hand."
        }
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        "An advantage over another; the dominant position."
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          "dominant"
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        "(idiomatic) An advantage over another; the dominant position."
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        "The hand in which a horse rider holds the whip."
      ],
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          "ref": "1876, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister, page 271",
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          "ref": "1895, L. A. Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet, page 152",
          "text": "Even the purest of all the Lamaist sects—the Ge-lug-pa—are thorough-paced devil-worshippers, and value Buddhism chiefly because it gives them the whip-hand over the devils.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, Phillip Inman, As UK economy recovers, employers remain reluctant to increase wages, The Guardian",
          "text": "Few workers are unionised, and in the UK's increasingly flexible labour market, where it is almost impossible to quit a job and claim unemployment benefits, where zero hour contracts are still a feature and where self-employment is on the rise, employers have the whip hand."
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        "An advantage over another; the dominant position."
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        "(idiomatic) An advantage over another; the dominant position."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "whip-hand"
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