have the ball at one's feet

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)