have nothing on

Example Sentences

• "Relax. The cops have nothing on us. All they can prove is that we were in the same town on the same day."
• "“Abe, I 've come down to gather you in,” announced the calmly mendacious detective. He continued to sip his bruilleau with fraternal unconcern. “You got nothing on me, Jim,” protested the other, losing his taste for the delicacies arrayed about him. “Well, we got 'o go down to Headquarters and talk that over,” calmly persisted Blake."
• "“We’re goin’ to hang you higher ’n’ Haman, you damned kidnappers an’ murderers,” yelled a man in the crowd. “Why don’t you give us a chance?” asked Bridge in an even tone, unaltered by fear or excitement. “You’ve nothing on us. As a matter of fact we are both innocent—” “Oh, shut your damned mouth,” interrupted another of the crowd."
• "“You’ve nothing on me—don't try bluffing me, Mr. West! You can't do it. […] You know damned well you can't prove anything on me, and I know it too!”"
• "‘But I should like to give you a piece of professional information; and that is, that the law has an ugly name for persons like you, and an uncomfortable remedy for—’ Cradock was quite at his ease again. ‘But you must first catch your hare, my dear Sir Anthony. To employ an expression which I picked up in the United States of America, you have nothing on me.’ ‘For the moment I admit that I have nothing on you—’ ‘So that’s that!’ Cradock turned away lightly, as if to address Mildred."
• "“Now you have nothing on me, Senator, except my name on lists of names from Iraq, many of which have been drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Baghdad. If you had any of the letters against me that you had against Zhirinovsky, and even Pasqua, they would have been up there in your slideshow for the members of your committee today.”"