have a finger in
Example Sentences
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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
Send them over here, then let him come here and take them away and I will try to have a finger in the Pie myself.
