have a finger in

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Key to all action is a character named Kristin, who works out of the American Embassy’s office of Cultural Affairs and seems to have a finger in every pie.

From New York Times • May 26, 2020

In the Colonial era, “it was expected that you have a finger in many pies.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2018

The perch is a good one, observers say, since you have a finger in nearly every policy pie — and because Donilon is thought to do a good job of empowering his people.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2013

The organisers have a finger in all things Generation Y arty.

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2010

All of a sudden a voice broke in on the absorbed group: "And I'm going to have a finger in this Fourth-of-July pie; so you needn't think you can keep me out."

From Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various