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Whip hand?

If, for another example, someone is given the whip hand, they are given the rein, so to speak, and get to do pretty much what they want, whatever they want.

Here are more examples, in greater detail, from the media:

1. Modern medicine may help us to discover the real reasons behind King George III’s erratic behaviour, writes historian Lucy Worsley.

George III is well known in children’s history books for being the “mad king who lost America”.

In recent years, though, it has become fashionable among historians to put his “madness” down to the physical, genetic blood disorder called porphyria. Its symptoms include aches and pains, as well as blue urine.

The theory formed the basis of a long-running play by Alan Bennett, The Madness of George III, which was later adapted for film starring Nigel Hawthorne in the title role.

However, a new research project based at St George’s, University of London, has concluded that George III did actually suffer from mental illness after all.

Using the evidence of thousands of George III’s own handwritten letters, Dr Peter Garrard and Dr Vassiliki Rentoumi have been analysing his use of language. They have discovered that during his episodes of illness, his sentences were much longer than when he was well.

A sentence containing 400 words and eight verbs was not unusual. George III, when ill, often repeated himself, and at the same time his vocabulary became much more complex, creative and colourful.