hand that rocks the cradle
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As Desmond Tutu put it in an interview from the film, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”
From Newsweek • Sep. 24, 2012
The hand that rocks the cradle was sure to rock the boat.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's a truism that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hand that rocks the cradle in the U.S. is getting younger.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world why not the hand that flips the batter-cake rock the ballot-box—cradle out of date?
From Andrew the Glad by Daviess, Maria Thompson
