get your claws into sb
informal disapprovingto find a way of influencing or controlling someone:
If the loan company gets its claws into you, you'll still be paying off this debt when you're 50.
If a woman gets her claws into a man, she manages to start a relationship with him, often because she wants to control him or get something from him:
If she gets her claws into that young man, she'll ruin his political career.
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Affecting and influencing
- across-the-board
- act
- affect
- applicability
- be/fall under sb's influence/spell idiom
- bear on sth
- cross
- force
- inspiration
- instrumental
- jerk
- lead 1
- leave your/its mark on sb/sth idiom
- major league
- reverberate
- thing
- turn sb's head idiom
- unlock
- warp
- work against/for sb
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Capturing or taking possession of things