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in someone's pocket1Dependent on someone financially and therefore under their influence: it was important that the voters should not be seen to be in any man’s pocket...- The Institute of Justice did its best to prevent the Supreme Court decision to hand over private property to any rich developers who can get a couple of city councilors in their pocket.
- The head doorman of the night club claimed he was a gangster figure with a police officer ‘in his pocket’ to whom he gave cocaine, a court heard today.
2Very close to and closely involved with someone: I’m tired of villages where everyone lives in everyone else’s pocket...- So then we had a slight argument, with her saying that I can still spend time on the computer doing all the things that I like doing on it, 'cause she doesn't want to be living in my pocket.
- And, because the cast are living in each other's pockets doing two shows a day for weeks on end, we become a family.
- One has to remember that Cambridge is a tiny city and though all these poets don't exactly live in each others pockets we do see each other by accident as much as by design.
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