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have/keep your finger on the pulse

To be keen on current happenings, trends, or developments in a particular place or situation; to know all the latest information about something and have a firm understanding of it

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  • From the literal meaning of having knowledge of one's heartbeat.
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In order to know how his movie would do at the box office, the actor claimed he kept his finger on the pulse of what movie-goers prefer to watch.

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