Recently some of my colleagues has started using the phrase "touch space" a lot, for example in sentences like "I just called you to touch space", or "I will touch space with him tomorrow".
I can deduce that it means something like "talk to" or "meet with", but what is the original meaning, what is the advantage of using "touch space", and where does it originate from ?
Best Answer
There's a mishearing somewhere along the line. The expression is touch base.
The expression means to have [brief] contact with someone (to exchange news & views, or simply to remind each other that you still exist and have some kind of relationship). It derives from baseball, where the hitter has to actually touch each base as he runs round. The important thing there is that there must be contact with the base.
Baseball also gives us the expression touch all bases (more commonly, cover all bases), meaning to have a plan which covers all foreseeable eventualities. That metaphoric usage alludes to the fact that every base that's being passed must be touched.
Here's a brief summary of both usages