put out a feeler
Example Sentences
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Last year, the British dance musician known as Fred Again.. put out a feeler to the Nashville-based alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise about a possible collaboration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
But before the studio met with any of them it put out a feeler to Netflix, thinking that fast-growing service might bid for the rights to repeat the show after a television premiere.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2013
Once, his brash younger brother, Rengan, put out a feeler for inside information to a friend from Stanford’s business school who had become Kumar’s protégé at McKinsey.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2011
So big, in fact, that they agreed that someone had to put in a call to Camp McCain, put out a feeler, before the line got too long and the bandwagon grew too full.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wondered how much Mr Bunner knew of the domestic difficulty in his chief's household, and decided to put out a feeler.
From Trent's Last Case by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
