A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

Note: 
Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase
have the world by the tail
— enjoy success and happiness: After
all, the guy had the world by the tail —first class travel and
first class hotels, money, glamour, beautiful women…
have a time • have the time
have a time —(coll.) 
1
. encounter some difficulty; have a hard
time: He hoped that Lavinia wasn’t having a time with the
twins, cooped inside on a damp afternoon. 2. enjoy oneself;
have fun: “Do you like the seashore?” “Yes, I’m having quite
a time.”
have the time —
1
. (also: have time) have sufficient time to do
smth.: I don’t see how you fellows have the time to monkey
around here. 2. (coll., in the phrase “do you have the time?”)
know the correct time of day: People who don’t wear watches
will often ask those who do, “Pardon me, do you have the
time?”
have a try at something • have a try for something
have a try at something —attempt to do smth. unfamiliar: I
don’t know whether I can mend the clock, but I’ll have a try
at it.
have a try for something —attempt to get or obtain smth.:
You may not get the job, but at least you can have a try for
it.
have a use for something • have the use of some-
thing
have a use for something —find an application for which
smth. can be used: I turned the material over to the radio-
chemistry department, which seemed to have a use for it.
Note:
The expression is only partially antonymous in meaning
to the phrase have no use for something—
1
. have no application
for which smth. can be used: My husband suggested we get it
and I thought I had no use for it. We had a computer already
but it was older and didn’t have a modem. 2. dislike smth.; be
averse to smth.: I had no use for meditation even though I’d
never tried it. I associated it with “new-agers” who didn’t, in
my opinion, have a clue about real life.
have the use of something —be able or allowed to use smth.:
Daddy was a pilot and so we had the use of all the small planes
and flew everywhere … sometimes just on a Sunday for fun.