• swaddling-bends, swaddling-clothes
• evil eye, ill effect, infection
• recovery of lost influence
• to affect, to bias, to influence, to operate, to prejudice, to sway, to tamper with, to warp
• influential, manipulator
• impressionable, pliant, suggestible
• to exercise an influence on sy, to tamper with sy, to weigh with sy
• biggy, hotshot, muck-a-muck
• to pull, to wield influence
• have a hold on sy, have a hold over sy