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Investigators, he said, should "be left alone" to carry out their work "free from interference from states, governments, or anybody else who has a finger in the pie".

From BBC Jul. 31, 2022

“Everybody gets their finger in the pie, and they turn it into mush.”

From New York Times Sep. 9, 2018

Now he roared that there was "no department of public activity, whether national or local, in which Labor hasn't got to have a finger in the pie."

From Time Magazine Archive

The novelist himself has an imperious finger in the pie.

From Time Magazine Archive

I suspect Mr. Rookley's finger in the pie.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)




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