в его отсутствие - управлять миром
(по аналогии с марионеткой на ниточках)

I've got the world on a string
I'm sitting on a rainbow
Got that string around my finger
What a world, what a life - I'm in love

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WEEKEND FESTIVALS GET THE WORLD ON A STRING

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Strap hangers: get the world on a string with small handbags that burst with color and cheer. (Waccessories Flash).
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The Cotton Club did indeed seem to have "the world on a string" during the early years of the depression, but the repeal of Prohibition in ...
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To have the world on a string and every time we move finger or a toe we could control the realties that confront us and guarantee that nothing but nice and ...
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Boy, you do have the world on a string...and all of us are hanging on to it! And I'm in love too...with you, so you just keep the hits coming.

должно же какое то устойчивое выражение быть. или перевод чисто контекстуальный?

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