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touch base

idiom
Meaning

To meet or make contact with someone, usually to consult, review, visit, or communicate.


Examples
SIMPLE

Let's touch base later this afternoon.

CONTEXTUAL

I will touch base with my manager tomorrow to see if the project is still on track.

COMPLEX

After returning from his extended leave, he made it a priority to touch base with each department head to ensure the transition remained seamless.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    base over apex

    Falling over in a jumbled heap.

  2. 02

    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.

  3. 03

    get to first base

    To get as far as the first phase or milestone of a goal.

  4. 04

    golden touch

    Synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”).

  5. 05

    human touch

    The ability of a person to deal with others in a personable and empathetic way.

  6. 06

    installed base

    The number of units of a system or product that are currently in use.

  7. 07

    kick into touch

    To evade an issue; to stop from happening.

  8. 08

    lose one's touch

    To lose one's special mastery of or knack for a particular skill or activity.

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