🗓️ Idiom: To Touch Base (v)
💬 Meaning
- To make brief contact with someone.
- To check in or update each other quickly.
🧠 Example Sentences
- Let’s touch base after the meeting to review the details.
- She touched base with her manager before sending the report.
- We need to touch base with the client to confirm the schedule.
🏛️ Origin
The idiom comes from baseball, where players must touch each base while running. In the 20th century, it began to be used in business English to mean making brief contact or checking in.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
“Let’s __________ tomorrow to finalize the project plan.”
Answer
touch base
2. Multiple choice:
What does the idiom “to touch base” mean?
a) To make brief contact with someone
b) To run around a field
c) To avoid giving information
Answer
a) To make brief contact with someone
3. Change the sentence using “to touch base”:
I will contact you later this week to give you an update.
Answer
I will touch base with you later this week.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
