translation help - Pot or nose?

[Robert Orr]

> A finger in every pie? The idiom indicates more of a busybody to me but 
> with overtones of a troublemaker.

More like a (sometimes) shady, borderline businessman with very extensive 
deals, and all sorts of insider knowledge.

Several years ago, in South Africa,  a similar figure appeared in court on 
various charges.  The judge (a native Afrikaans speaker with good, 
but-not-quite-good enough-on-occasion English described him as "having a 
finger in every tart in town." 

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