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finger on the pulse

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your finger on the pulse (of something)
knowledge of what is happening now in a particular area. They've got their finger on the pulse of popular culture in Latvia.
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With a finger on the pulse of the people of the community, they plan to offer inside incentives to renters currently residing in a nearby building owned by Wittingham.
Another in the quick-read-on-the-shitter 'zine series, this one's out of Oakland but manages to keep its finger on the pulse of the spontaneously erupting underground spots in California: Washington Street, Channel Street, and the Oakland Project (whatever happened to this one?
When Kocot writes in the poem titled "Lithium"--"I have my finger on the pulse of something / My mind is a sea that eats me, / the fidgety harmony of two trains passing"--she is not lying.
 
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