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have someone in one's hip pocket
vs
have someone in the palm of one's hand
have someone in one's hip pocket
have someone in the palm of one's hand
verb
To have full control or influence over someone.
How often have the words
have someone in one's hip pocket
and
have someone in the palm of one's hand
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)