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cahoot
[ kuh-hoot ]
51Թ History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- go cahoots, to share equally; become partners: Also go in cahoot with, go in cahoots.
They went cahoots in the establishment of the store.
- in cahoot / cahoots,
- in partnership; in league.
- in conspiracy:
in cahoots with the enemy.
Example Sentences
It seems that Martin is in cahoots with one of the other most-terrible Trump appointees, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
And I think in that trust gap, you have somebody like an RFK Jr who tries to explain it all via a grand conspiracy theory about the scientists and everybody being in cahoots.
Is he going home at night feeling guilty and wondering, “Am I in cahoots with criminals? I guess I am.”
Another delight in “Mr. Throwback” is Mayeri, playing Danny’s ex-wife, Sam, who finds herself in cahoots with his big lie and enjoying having Curry bankroll her fantasies.
Old-guard unions, in cahoots with companies, would often threaten workers with dismissal or loss of benefits if they chose an independent union.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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