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
But to ensure that, they must have a finger in the pie, and Russell or Shaw would have to have the offer of the Irish Office.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
