Timeline for have something over someone
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| Sep 5 at 13:47 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | Your suggested dialogue makes sense only because context is so powerful. My ear skips right over the somewhat unusual use of "over" and assumes the meaning. This would be especially true if the dialogue were set somewhere other than my reality, like Tom Sawyer and his 19th-century slang; I'd just suppose it was "the way they talked." | |
| Sep 5 at 11:05 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @MichaelHarvey: Idiomatically, having power / influence (often but not always, by virtue of knowing a secret) is more likely to be She's got something on him rather than ...something over him. There are dozens of matches in the first link (most of which reflect the context, I'm sure), but just three matches for the over version. | |
| Sep 5 at 10:39 | answer | added | Astralbee | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 5 at 4:56 | history | asked | azz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |