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#1 2007-07-06 20:01:13

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'the upper hang' for 'the upper hand'

If you can get the hang of something, why not the upper hang? Uncommon:

He survived through so many difficulties and he got the upper hang in the struggle for his life.
www.capac.ru/sos_childpages_chervinskiy_e.htm

...making a profit sometimes take the upper hang over fixing the environment and actually taking care of the issues.
www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/e/jec326/mynotes.html

we have an inner fight with ourselves and sometimes our worse side gets the upper-hang.
schoonerbumm.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-not-crazy-im-just-little-unwell.html

Making Kurds masters in Baghdad and giving Shiites the upper hang in Iraq are also first attempts in the history of country.
www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/yazarDetay.do?haberno=2645

Which makes me bring up the question, who has the upper hang, the networks or the sites?
chartreuse.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/planes-trains-new-hollywood-and-your-network/

Make-up and I have since reached an uneasy truce – it lets me think I’ve got the upper hang, though we still have the occasional tussle …
meish.org/2002/12/08/cow-gum/

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