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
Now he roared that there was "no department of public activity, whether national or local, in which Labor hasn't got to have a 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
Dan'l Tobey contented himself with the progress of these matters; he no longer stuck a finger in the pie.
From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames
