have a hold over

Also, have a hold on. Have a controlling influence over. For example, Blackmailers have a hold over their victims, or, as Shakespeare put it in The Merchant of Venice (4:1): "The law has yet another hold on you." [Late 1500s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zandra	ZAN-drə	English
Azat	-	Tatar, Kazakh, Turkmen, Turkish, Armenian
Isabelle	ee-za-BEL (French), IZ-ə-bel (English), ee-sah-BEL-lə (Dutch)	French, English, German, Dutch
SaŠA	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Jengo	-	Eastern African, Swahili
Gottlieb	GAWT-leep	German