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
The novelist himself has an imperious finger in the pie.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also owns a sizable block of stock in Madison Square Garden Corp., which gives him a finger in the pie of the Rangers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Certainly, Lady Littletown had had what Mr Elbraham called a finger in the pie, and had added no little by her advice and counsel in making the interior the model it was.
From A Double Knot by Fenn, George Manville
