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单词 the drop
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the drop
a. to get (have) the drop on, colloquial (originally U.S.): to get (have) a person at a disadvantage; originally to have the chance to shoot before the antagonist can use his weapon. Hence the drop = the advantage.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > have or get (someone) at a disadvantage
to have at avail1470
to catch, have, hold, take (one) at (a or the) vantagec1510
to gain of1548
to be to the forehand with1558
to have (take) on (in, at) the lurch1591
to get the sun of1598
to have (also get) a good hand against1600
to take (have, etc.) at a why-nota1612
to weather on or upon1707
to have the laugh on a person1767
to have a (or the) pull of (also over, on)1781
to get to windward of1783
to have the bulge on1841
to give points to1854
to get (have) the drop on1869
to hold over1872
to have an (or the) edge on1896
to get (also have) the goods on1903
to get (or have) the jump on1912
to have (got) by the balls1918
1869 A. K. McClure 3,000 Miles through Rocky Mts. xxiv. 233 So expert is he with his faithful pistol, that the most scientific of rogues have repeatedly attempted in vain to get ‘the drop’ on him.
1875 J. Miller First Fam'lies Sierras vii. 55 It was strange that Sandy did not pull.., at all events he had the ‘drop’, and could afford to wait..and see what he [sc. the Parson] would do.
1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 208/1 The men..were always waiting to ‘get the drop’ on somebody.
1884 U.S. Newspaper The Sheriff and his deputies..having the drop on the outlaw he surrendered quietly.
1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds II. 27 It was my own fault for letting them get the chance to have the drop on me.
1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear i. vii. 140 He'd have had the drop on me with that buckshot gun of his before ever I could draw on him.
1917 J. Ferguson Stealthy Terror xiii. 288 He had got ‘the drop’ on us, and he knew it.
1918 C. E. Mulford Man from Bar-20 149 Th' man with the drop can find a lot to say, if he's a tin-horn.
1940 ‘N. Blake’ Malice in Wonderland i. viii. 107 He suspects Miss Thistlethwaite..of having got the drop on him.
1959 ‘J. Christopher’ Scent of White Poppies ix. 147 Two of us can handle it... We shall have the drop on them.
1970 New Yorker 23 May 27/2 F.B.I. agents had been trying to ‘crawl up through the belly of the plane either to get the drop on him [sc. a hijacker] or to get a shot at him’.
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