touch base with

Idioms  

1. Make contact or renew communications with, as in I'll try to touch base with you when I'm in Ohio, or The candidate touched base with every ethnic group in the city. This idiom comes from baseball, where a runner must touch each base without being tagged before a run can be scored.

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touch base with

“It’s a lot easier for me to touch base with people who can get them on the phone and say, ‘50 wants to talk to you.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

“I will touch base with the scientific research department here to see what technology is desired and I will let you know what to prepare,” he texted Hua on Jan. 9, 2018.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

Ford continues to touch base with another man who has been blind since birth and lives in a shelter in Southeast Washington.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023

Oswant recommends people touch base with lifeguards before going into the waves, and swimming in front of lifeguard stands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

We had asked her to touch base with our witnesses before the hearing to go over last-minute details and calm their nerves.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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