have the ball at one's feet
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w é NC à OSH è ngsu à n, meaning to be sure to win. It comes from Guan Zi Ming FA Jie.
Notes on Idioms
Stability: assurance; manipulation: mastery; Odds: a strategy to win.
The origin of Idioms
Guanzi · Mingfa Jie: "therefore, it is necessary to control the number of people who will win in order to govern the people who will use it."
Idiom usage
It can be used as predicate, object and attribute. example we have already been waiting for the labor, and we can win by controlling the few with the masses. (Yao xueyin, Li Zicheng, Vol.2, Chapter 26)
have the ball at one's feet
Flies follow the tail of a steed and fly thousands of miles - yíng fù jì wěi ér zhì qiān lǐ
cover a thousand li in a single day - rì xíng qiān lǐ