have (someone) eating out of (one's) hand

have (someone) eating out of (one's) hand

To have great influence over someone. If you want to have someone eating out of your hand, flattery always helps.

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have someone eating out of your hand

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have someone eating out of the palm of your hand

If you have someone eating out of your hand or have them eating out of the palm of your hand, they will do whatever you want because they like or admire you so much. No one can handle the press as she can and she usually has them eating out of her hand by the time they leave. He is a silver-tongued lawyer, famed for having juries eat out of the palm of his hand. Note: The image here is of an animal which is tame and will take food from a person's hand.

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have someone eating out of your hand

have someone completely under your control.

1987 Bernard MacLaverty The Great Profundo One of my main difficulties is that I'm not good with an audience. There's guys can come out and have a crowd eating out of their hand right away with a few jokes.

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have somebody eating out of your ˈhand

have somebody completely in your control so that they will do whatever you want: Once they knew that they would never be able to escape without his help, he had them eating out of his hand.

See also: eating, hand, have, of, out, somebody