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
To spur such production, the State is to loan working capital to industry without interest, this being easy because bankers who would charge interest are to have no finger in the pie.
From Time Magazine Archive
The novelist himself has an imperious finger in the pie.
From Time Magazine Archive
This would have been very well, if the matter had stopped there, but Edie put her finger in the pie.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Harris, Joel Chandler
