touch base
/tʌtʃ beɪs/
to make brief contact with someone to share or check on information
touch base in a sentence
“Can we touch base before end of day to align on next steps?”
Origin of touch base
From baseball — touching each base to complete a run; popularized in business circa 1970s
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