have a hand in

1. Also, take a hand in . Participate, be involved, as in I'd like to have a hand in planning the publicity . [Late 1500s]

2. . Be actively engaged or remain in practice doing something. For example, He works as stage manager, director, understudy—he has a hand in every aspect , or Write a few pages every day, just to keep your hand in . [Mid-1700s]

Example Sentences

“There are these other issues that have got to be solved, and we don’t have a hand in them,” he says.

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Even so, placing a supposedly superior world within Peacemaker’s reach, one he didn’t have a hand in improving, can’t end well.

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ArcLight was the best place to be a moviegoer, so I want to have a hand in creating something like that in L.A. again.

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An abusive father, a cousin he regarded as a bully and ultimately a psychiatrist who sought to control his every move, his every thought — all appeared to have a hand in making Wilson who he was.

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In the coming months, several different judges, parole commissioners and even Gov. Gavin Newsom could still have a hand in the brothers’ fate.

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