Definition
To be in a strong position, possessing significant advantages over someone else; to be in control of a situation involving multiple parties.
In Context
- ""[B]ut if you make conditions I have no choice but to accept them, seeing that you hold the cards.""
- "Once a ticket is paid for and the airline has your money, it holds the cards."
- ""In the short term, from a power perspective, the current Zimbabwe elite is holding the cards," says Steven Friedman, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy."
Also Said As
- hold all the aces
- hold the aces
See Also
- the upper hand
- whip hand