Citations:have the drop on


 * 1996, Jim Burtt-Smith, John  French, A Drop in the Ocean: Dramatic Accounts of Aircrew Saved From the Sea, Pen and Sword (ISBN 9780850525076), page 22:
 * They had the drop on us and I had the feeling normally associated with nakedness. But they did not seem keen to take the plunge.
 * 1919, Clayton Holt Ernst, The Open Road:
 * It was evident that Buck, after coming so near without discovering any remaining signs of life in his intended victim, was totally unprepared for the swift action which had placed him at a disadvantage. Craig unquestionably had the drop on him.
 * 2007, Jeff Somers, The Electric Church, Orbit (ISBN 9780316019385)
 * I had the drop on him, I knew it would be easy to pop him . . . but System Pigs were always tougher to kill than you thought. They always turned out to be luckier than they had right to be.
 * 2016, Stephen King, The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781501161834), page 343:
 * She could hardly believe what she was seeing: Jonas had the drop on a boy who had the drop on Reynolds who had the drop on another boy (this last one wearing a bird&#39;s skull around his neck on a chain) who had the drop on Roy  Depape.