touch all the bases

touch (on) all (the) bases

To include, make reference to, or take action on every desired or required element or aspect (of something). The essay touches all bases, but it doesn't do much to elaborate on them or introduce any new insights. For fans of the genre, the film touches on all the bases.
See also: all, bases, touch
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

touch all the bases

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touch all bases

If someone or something touches all the bases or touches all bases, they deal with or include all the different things that they should. His speech was short but he touched all the bases. The simple menu touches all bases: meat, fish, poultry and pasta. Note: You can also say that someone or something covers all the bases or covers all bases. The boss covers all bases when he sets up a job. Note: In baseball, batters have to touch the first, second, and third bases to score a run.
See also: all, bases, touch
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • touch (on) all (the) bases
  • be under par
  • under par
  • under control
  • be below par
  • be below/under par
  • below par
  • have got to (do something)
  • leave it at that
  • hung over
References in periodicals archive
"At national level we had our fixtures plan laid out, we sent it back to the provinces, the provinces looked at that, and 95% of the time they comply within that to touch all the bases, but in some places it doesn't work out.
REPLAY DELAY A HEADACHE
Kinney's ability to touch all the bases in such a compressed space: 142 pages plus a glossary and index.
Airplanes: The Life Story of a Technology
The site offers a sample emergency plan with a checklist business owners can use to make sure they touch all the bases in preparing for the worst.
Web watch
In its sampling of talking-head subjects, pic manages to touch all the bases, historywise.
Bluegrass Journey
Such a ferocious and brave notion, to be hinted at by such a simple motion, and the gesture itself lasting perhaps all of four seconds--if you touch all the bases and don't rush.
Sign language
When it comes to championship play on the field, or great communications off the field, the Dodgers touch all the bases.
L.A. Dodgers touch all bases on phone equipment