get smb. Cold

get smb. Cold
амер.; разг.
(get (или have) smb. cold (редк. get it on smb. cold))
иметь кого-л. в своей власти, распоряжаться кем-л

Patton sighed. ‘He hadn't ought to have given me a break like that’, he said. ‘Had me cold.’ (R. Chandler, ‘The Lady in the Lake’, ch. 40) — - Дегармо не следовало бы предоставлять мне такую возможность. - Паттон вздохнул. - Я же был в его власти.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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