in the pocket of (someone)
idiom
disapproving
: under someone's control or influence
researchers/scientists who are in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies
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All of Gotham’s institutions are poisoned and in the pocket of its upper one percent, which would normally at least include Bruce Wayne, but see above.
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
Agents must be paid better and provided with new equipment and technology, while those who are in the pocket of migrant smugglers must be laid off.
—Andrew Selee, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2019
Research in Soviet archives has revealed that Mao was thoroughly in the pocket of Stalin and has cast doubt on the claim, long accepted by China experts in the United States, that Mao’s forces fought hard against the Japanese during World War II.
—John Pomfret, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
Presumably, the new principal is in the pocket of Ri-an’s mother too, which lends a kind of futility to much of what happened in Season 1.
—Kayti Burt, TIME, 7 June 2024
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
Agents must be paid better and provided with new equipment and technology, while those who are in the pocket of migrant smugglers must be laid off.
—Andrew Selee, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2019
Research in Soviet archives has revealed that Mao was thoroughly in the pocket of Stalin and has cast doubt on the claim, long accepted by China experts in the United States, that Mao’s forces fought hard against the Japanese during World War II.
—John Pomfret, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
Presumably, the new principal is in the pocket of Ri-an’s mother too, which lends a kind of futility to much of what happened in Season 1.
—Kayti Burt, TIME, 7 June 2024
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