There was no refusing him, for he had got the complete upper hand of the community, and the peaceful burghers all stood in awe of him.
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1855, Washington Irving, Guests from Gibbet Island:
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[C]uriosity began to get the upper hand, and I determined I should have one look through the cabin window.
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1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 23, in Treasure Island:
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There it was Razumov who had the upper hand, in a composed sense of his own superiority.
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1911, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Under Western Eyes:
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And because they live everywhere and reproduce quickly, bacteria have the upper hand.
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2003 February 14, Christine Gorman, “Playing Chicken With Our Antibiotics”, in Time:
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"We've now protected the line from similar-sized flooding-events and bigger ones," he says. That's quite some claim for a line where floods have often had the upper hand in the past 16 years, causing track bed and embankments to be rebuilt.
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2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 61: