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- hold sway over
hold sway over
hold sway over
Dominate, have a controlling influence over, as in He held sway over the entire department. This idiom uses the noun sway in the sense of "power" or "dominion," a usage dating from the late 1500s.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Lupita | | loo-PEE-tah | Spanish |
| Seth (1) | | SETH (English) | English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek |
| Lysander | | - | Ancient Greek (Latinized) |
| Tara (1) | | TAHR-ə, TER-ə, TAR-ə | English |
| DİLara | | - | Turkish |
| Gisilbert | | - | Ancient Germanic |