in one's hip pocket
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[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (idiomatic) Synonym of in one's back pocket.
- 2021 September 14, Sam Potter, Katherine Greifeld, Elaine Chen, “ETF Industry Risks Losing Key Tax Edge as Democrat Whets Knife”, in Bloomberg[1]:
- “Wyden right now is coming up with his own provisions that could fit into that” final legislation, said Nathan Dean, a government analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. “Think of this as something to have in his hip pocket when the Democrats start negotiating.”