To have someone in the palm of one's hand requires empathy and patience.

With his kindness and humor, he could easily have someone's nose wide open before the end of the night.

To have one's ears pinned back is an old idiom meaning to be severely reprimanded, and my brother learned that the hard way after skipping school.

At the family reunion, some relatives joked that Uncle Joe seemed to have more chins than Chinatown when he laughed.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu launched a coastal conservation program last year to protect migratory birds and endangered wetlands.

In her lecture on social policy she sighed, 'the poor we will always have with us,' and urged renewed efforts to reduce inequality.

I watched him win the lottery and then get a promotion — some people have all the luck.

When the scandal resurfaced, he was reminded that old sins have long shadows.

After the startup was sold, they seemed to have more money than God and didn't know how to spend it all.

Right, let's be having you out the door — the train won't wait.