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in touch

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*in touch (with someone)
1. Fig. in contact with someone by letter or telephone. (*Typically: be ~; get ~; keep ~.) I tried to get in touch with her, but she never answered her phone. I just couldn't seem to get in touch.
2. Fig. [of oneself] having self-knowledge. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) I need to get in touch with myself and the way I really feel about things. She needs to try more to be in touch with herself and her feelings.
See also: touch

in touch (with somebody)
in communication with someone I'm sorry we haven't been in touch over the past few years. We stay in close touch with the New York office. How can I get in touch with your sister?
Usage notes: usually used with the verbs be, keep, stay, and get, as in the examples
Opposite of: out of touch (with somebody)
See also: touch

in touch (with something)

having recent knowledge about something I try to keep in touch with the latest developments in the music scene. A president must stay in touch to know what citizens want or need.
Opposite of: out of touch (with something)
See also: touch


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The many hours he was not with Ruth he devoted to the "Love-cycle," to reading at home, or to the public reading-rooms, where he got more closely in touch with the magazines of the day and the nature of their policy and content.
It may be a cabaret in the Latin Quarter, a cafe in some obscure Italian village, a boozing ken in sailor-town, and it may be up at the club over Scotch and soda; but always it will be where John Barleycorn makes fellowship that I get immediately in touch, and meet, and know.
With deft fingers she unshipped this, took it with her, reeling out the wire as she went, thus keeping, in a way, in touch with the kite.
 
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