A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

have a feeling about something • have a feeling for
something
have a feeling about something —have an emotional attitude
towards smth.; harbor a prejudice or fear about smth.: I don’t
want to be in a train crash. But I have a very bad feeling about
this train.
have a feeling for something —have taste or sensitivity for
smth.; have an understanding of smth.: Most women have
some rudimentary feeling for dress, but Charlotte was born
without dress-sense.
have a finger in something • pull one’s finger out
have a finger in something —(also: have a hand in something )
be involved in smth.; play a role in smth.: Possibly the Rus-
sians might have had a finger in this. The cold war was raging
at that time.
pull one’s finger out—(sl.) start working more efficiently (also:
get one’s finger out): We’re still waiting for the reviewer to pull
his finger out and deliver. Serves us right for recruiting literary
talent in a bar.
have a foot in both camps • walk both sides of the
street
have a foot in both camps —have connections with two mutu-
ally antagonistic groups: Evelio had his foot in both camps
and had a significant influence in each of the two organizations.
walk both sides of the street—(also: have it both ways) 
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achieve two mutually exclusive objectives; benefit from two
different situations that do not normally go together: Simon
is trying to walk both sides of the street by saying one thing
to the business community and another to his union mates.
2. (sl.) have both homosexual and heterosexual tastes: Every-
one’s sexuality is governed by their own heart, and whether it
changes or not, or walks both sides of the street, is completely
up to fate.
Note: 
The expression does not fully correlate in meaning with
the phrase have the best of both worlds— = walk both sides of
the street 
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: You can have the best of both worlds by spending
your holiday sailing yet being able to live ashore in warm, dry
comfort. Cf.: have the worst of both worlds — have two disad-
vantages in a bad situation: We have the worst of both worlds:
responsibility in the eyes of international opinion, but precious
little power to determine events.