finger in the pie
Example Sentences
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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
To spur such production, the State is to loan working capital to industry without interest, this being easy because bankers who would charge interest are to have no finger in the pie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wilhelmina, an astute business woman herself, is a large owner of tin mines, just as she has a moneyed finger in the pie of nearly every enterprise of magnitude in Holland.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I felt sure you had had a finger in the pie, Polly," said the farmer, looking kindly on his little maid, and well knowing how fond she was of his dear children.
From The Sheep and Lamb by Miller, Thomas
