"Get the drop on" nghĩa là gì?

"Get the drop on" -> nghĩa là dành được lợi thế trước đối thủ của mình, thường dùng trong chính trị hay thương mại. Cụm từ này bắt nguồn từ việc đấu súng cao bồi, người nào rút súng trước thì người kia phải hạ (drop) súng của mình.

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Jimmy Davis suspected Nick Chiaravalloti was going to somehow get the drop on him. The mayor had heard the chatter behind his back about how he was great for the ribbon cuttings but not for the fine points of deal-making, and while it may have suited that crust of guys in the establishment to have a guy in city hall who wasn’t manic (vui buồn thất thường) about details – Davis was more than just that, too.

From not getting Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes to cooperate with him over their efforts to apprehend (bắt giữ) Karli Morgenthau, to getting badly beaten by the Dora Milaje of Black Panther fame when they came to haul Zemo back to Wakanda, Walker reached peak insecurity. He only caught one break in the episode: Zemo missed destroying one Super Soldier Serum vial when he got the drop on Karli, and after discovering said vial, Walker later injected himself with the formula.

Irony is one of gossip’s favourite vessels. Oscar Wilde, the patron saint of gossip, wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray that “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” This is the mantra (câu thần chú) that informs every celebrity’s career, whether they’ll admit it or not. It’s why I’ve been able to sustain a career as a celebrity gossip columnist (chuyên mục báo), snarking on celebrities, for 15 years. And now, it’s how my students got the drop on me, their professor, exposing me to myself — that the person who gossips and the persons she gossips about may not be all that different after all. My work here is done.