to touch base
14
3.5
- phrasal verb
- /tʌtʃ beɪs/
:
ponerse en contacto con
- I need to touch base with you all.
- just touch base
Do you want to touch base on how unjust that was?
- Do you want to touch base on how unjust that was?
- So it's probably only right to touch base on the on the relationship there.
- You know, I want to touch base about the dancing.
- And then I think Tati touched base with James and then they turned yes.
- Make a plan of, OK, we are going to touch base On this date.
- So I don't know what your thoughts are, but maybe just wanted to touch base on that and get that.
- Not like Hey, Matt, or just wanted to touch base with you, Sir.
- They will frequently try to touch base with or even bother the therapist in between sessions.
- I've got mates that have just left, left, you know, and we all get on, we all touch base, people laugh about it.
- Like what I, I find that so crazy, but I've been really making it a point to touch base with people that I haven't spoken to in a while.
- We follow up, we touch base, we nurture, we continue to provide free value because.
- As well as how often we need to actually not just talk to each other, but even just touch base, whether it be little texts and stuff like that.
- Starting around Thanksgiving and going all the way through New Year's and uses the holiday or the holiday period as an entry point to touch base with you.
- But I wanted to touch base finally on this book club because I think the last one was two months ago.
- One of my new audiences that I've really enjoyed touching base with and actually learning about them because I had no clue it was the vegans.
- All right, so let's touch base again and see how everything went with Jackie Schemmel, host of the Bitch Bible Podcast.
Examples
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Sometimes you may have to touch base with the instructor to find out more information.
Blog text (21) -
I just wanted to touch base on a couple of office things.
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So I just wanted to touch base on those two things.
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So it's probably only right to touch base on the on the relationship there.
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But I wanted to touch base finally on this book club because I think the last one was two months ago.
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You can touch base with him first.
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Just wanted to touch base, tell you we're all very happy with your work.
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We make an attempt to touch base with each other daily.
Academic text (2011) -
The next day, I called Sue and explained that I wanted just to touch base with her.
Academic text (2006) -
I just wanted to touch base with you to discuss the project updates.
Synonyms
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1.3
Make contact with someone by phone or email
572
1.8
Build a friendly relationship with someone by talking or listening
166
2.3
To talk with someone to share news after not seeing them for a while
155
2.3
Contact someone after not talking for a while
113
2.8
To get in touch with someone after a time without talking
10
4.1
To send someone a short electronic message to get their attention
Antonyms
How Connected
338
2.7
113
2.8
14
3.5
202
2.7
9
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'touch' (make contact) combined with 'base' (a point or starting place) yields a clear metaphor of making contact at a point, so an informed B1 learner could often infer the sense 'make brief contact/communicate'. However, the usage is a conventionalized, register-specific metaphor (business/baseball origin) rather than a literal composition, so the exact pragmatic nuance is not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Touch base may come from baseball, where a player must quickly touch a base to show they are safe. So the phrase came to mean 'make contact' or 'check in' briefly, and today we use it when we want a short update from someone.