have the world by the tail
have the world on a string

In his mind he had the world by the tail.

They had the world by the tail and blew it.

But right now, he had the world by the tail and everything was going right.

You were twenty, you had the world by the tail.

At 30 and 40, you think you have the world by the tail."

Max, a lot of things can happen to a man when he thinks he has the world by the tail.

Whether he took money or not, he put A&M in a really bad situation when it had the world by the tail.

I thought I had the world by the tail."

They had the world by the tail--so why were they crying?

As a matter of fact, you could think you're at the top, have the world by the tail but in reality you're really at the bottom.

These are young men, they have the world by the tail and they work for a great team and a great franchise.

He knew that he had the world by the tail on a downhill pull, as long as he kept his invention a secret.

"We have two young ladies that were beautiful, talented and intelligent, had the world by the tail, could have done anything and they're gone,” Shay said.

Twenty-four-year-old Slobodan Milošević (Aleksandar Berček) seemingly has the world by the tail.

"You start off thinking he has the world by the tail — he has a beautiful family, he owns this jewel of Miami Beach," Morgan said.

Ordering tortellini and a vodka gimlet in an upscale restaurant on a sun-splashed Colorado afternoon, Mr. Hamblin would seem to have the world by the tail.

Perry used to say that if a fellow was one-tenth as remarkable as his wife or mother thought him, he would have the world by the tail with a down-hill drag.

Panfilo reached out and slapped away some dust he'd missed - or perhaps slapped at nothing at all, to keep Tealdo from thinking he had the world by the tail.

In 1962, the discount industry was fairly young and full of high-living, big-spending promoters driving around in Cadillacsguys like Herb Gibsonwho had the world by the tail.

IX RELATIVES Once Pat was over his paralysis I should have had the world by the tail, for I had everything I wanted.

"There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail," Wilson said on a "We the People" radio program over the Columbia Broadcasting System.

"The facade is that they have the world by the tail," says Donald R. Thoms, director of the Gamblers' Treatment Center of St. Vincent's North Richmond Community Mental Health Center, a Staten Island facility.

The Beav laughing about how Duddits had worried Santa Claus wasn't real, and all four of them big high-school galoots by then, thinking they had the world by the tail working to reconvince Duddits that Santa was a true thing, the real deal.

What would you tell someone like Vick, who once had the world on a string?

I had the world on a string, for days.

A man, still in his 20s, who had the world on a string — and certainly didn’t need to moonlight to make ends meet.

Even in handcuffs, they claim to have the world on a string.

As always, he had that look of having the world on a string, everything indisputably under his control.

Having the world on a string may remain a dream, but at least you can have the world's news and music on your shelf.

You have the world on a string!

Puppet Parade In its simplest terms, it's the world on a string.

On the car radio, Frank Sinatra sings about having the world on a string.

Mr. Spacey, who is one of the movie's producers, breezes into the picture as if he has the world on a string.

The reception is guarded, and one senses the envy mixed with the admiration for the young rap idol who, at 19, has the world on a string.

These two, in other words, had the world on a string in 1924: rich, smart, good looking, well connected and with the brightest of futures ahead of them.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Michael Bublé has the world on a string.

Matt walked towards us with one of those bouncy steps that suggested he had the world on a string and was sitting on a rainbow, as the old song used to say.

The wizardry of HC Jr. has given the lion courage this week and now to quote Frankie, Lee can Have The World On A String.

She appears to have the world on a string, living with a handsome husband, Stephen (Billy Crudup) whose only flaw, albeit a serious one, is his jumping from one career to another.

Now, after England won the toss at the start of a series, and he had the world on a string, came this wretched sweep and then a non-stroke which, like the peace of God, passeth all understanding.

Today, married 29 for years, the Colemans have the world on a string, sitting in their hot tub, roaring off to rallies with their reproduction 1924 Ford hot rod and their Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

He was an awkward and lonesome kid, but the Sinatra songs could make him feel as if he had the world on a string and was sitting on a rainbow with the string around his finger.

The production, which is part of the Travelex £12 season, is suffused with Orlando Gough's attractive Balkan-tinged music played by an onstage gypsy band who, amusingly, underline how Liola has the world on a string by striking up and stopping at his whim like some personal backing group.