hold all the aces

If you already held all the aces, though, what difference did it make?

I knew that, in the cold light of day, he held all the aces.

"They might be on the other side of the table from you, but the reality is, you're holding all the aces."

Such nonprofit groups do not hold all the aces in the game of real estate.

You've drawn cards in this game but we hold all the aces.

You haven't gotten it through your thick head yet that we hold all the aces.

Instead, they both looked like poker players who secretly held all the aces.

The general consensus is that the rebel leader holds all the aces.

It has been a climate in which the lawbreaker held all the aces.

"But I think we are holding all the aces.

She was the one holding all the aces.

That's where they hold all the aces.

He discovered that the partnership held all the aces and kings, but had no way of knowing whether a grand slam was indicated.

I'm afraid that Mr Molloy seems to hold all the aces.

He intended to deal himself into a grim criminal game in which he was convinced he held all the aces.

'Those fellows seem to hold all the aces.'

Lyle held all the aces.

'And William Kane doesn't frighten me; not while I'm holding all the aces in my hand.

He just didn't hold all the aces in the pack - he held a pack full of aces.

Right now, Boofuls holds all the aces.'

And the Iranians wore the complacent smiles of those who hold all the aces and three of the kings.

While Sir Humphrey initially held all the aces, Hacker now and again plays a trump card of his own.

'He's got a teacher bossing him around who's about four years older than he is, if that, and a lot less self-confident, but holding all the aces.

But West thought, wrongly, that his partner held all the aces and that the double was Lightner, asking for a diamond lead and ruff.

If Bolan had learned any full-dimensioned truth in Vietnam, it was that an aggressor holds all the aces when the defense is limited to purely reaction and containment.