have a finger in
Example Sentences
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Key to all action is a character named Kristin, who works out of the American Embassy’s office of Cultural Affairs and seems to have a finger in every pie.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2020
In the Colonial era, “it was expected that you have a finger in many pies.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2018
The perch is a good one, observers say, since you have a finger in nearly every policy pie — and because Donilon is thought to do a good job of empowering his people.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2013
The Committee chairman, Andrew Tyrie MP, said: "It doesn't really matter what the scandal is – Barclays seems to have a finger in every one of those pies."
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2013
If others could plot and scheme, she would have a finger in the pie—that was all.
From The Bartlett Mystery by Louis Tracy
