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
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
The novelist himself has an imperious finger in the pie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rochefort, the other man's friend, and a French fellow, insisted on having a finger in the pie.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James
