Upper hand
Upper hand noun - The more favorable condition or position in a competition.
Winning and upper hand are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Winning" instead a noun phrase "Upper hand".
Winning
Winning noun - Succeeding with great difficulty.
Upper hand and winning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Upper hand" instead a noun "Winning".
Both terms in one sentence
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Leitmotif: Depending on who is winning, the Dynamic Music System changes the instruments and beat to whoever has the upper hand (if Velvet is winning, for example, Christmas Bells can be heard jingling).
- Abis Mal is mostly by far the least threatening of Aladdin's Rogues Gallery, but there are times when he's managed to not only get the upper hand, but come dangerously close to winning.
Source: Not-So-Harmless Villain - One of the times she actually came close to winning for once was siccing a seemingly-indestructible Bearafooda on the good guys in Episode 10 (who of course gained back the upper hand when they used a power topping).
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