touch base
To meet or make contact with someone, usually to consult, review, visit, or communicate.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Let's touch base later this afternoon.”
“I will touch base with my manager tomorrow to see if the project is still on track.”
“After returning from his extended leave, he made it a priority to touch base with each department head to ensure the transition remained seamless.”
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base over apex
Falling over in a jumbled heap.
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common touch
The personal quality of showing understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinary people; rapport with and acceptance by ordinary people, usually in a celebrity or leader.
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cover one's bases
To be thorough; to prepare thoroughly or completely.
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everything one touches turns to gold
Everything someone uses or does succeeds or becomes better.
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everything one touches turns to shit
Everything someone uses or does fails or becomes worse.
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get to first base
To get as far as the first phase or milestone of a goal.
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golden touch
Synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”).
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human touch
The ability of a person to deal with others in a personable and empathetic way.
Last updated August 10, 2026