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get an in with
Idioms and Phrases
Also, have an in with . Acquire (or have) influence with someone in authority. For example, The only way they'll allow us to film the play is if we get an in with the director , or We should have no problem, since Dad has an in with the inspector . This idiom employs the noun in the sense of “an introduction to someone of power, fame, or authority,” a usage dating from the 1920s.Example Sentences
Hopefully she’s just being garden-variety nosy, but it’s certainly possible that she thinks hounding her former brother-in-law’s daughter ceaselessly is a good way to get an “in” with him.
He was hoping to lure Melissa into his trap and then submit her resume to the big tech company in order to get an ‘in’ with them.
All in all, I was able to get an “in” with 12 of the 20 companies, including the one that really mattered—my current employer, The Muse.
To get an in with the theme park, Roopra hired a group of young people who worked as cast members at Disney World to be his part-time interns.
"I can't take chances of gumming things up, but on the other hand, I want to get an 'in' with that gang if I can."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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