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