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cahoot
[ kuh-hoot ]
Word 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
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.
The criminals are suspected to have been working in cahoots with a network of “accountants, service providers and public notaries” to get the money they transferred to bank accounts in Austria, Romania and Slovakia.
The left-leaning couple has been accused by conservatives online of spreading liberal propaganda, calling Swift a "psyop" in cahoots with the Biden administration to secure the President a second term.
She’s the kind of malcontent who will, in all sincerity, accuse people of being “in cahoots.”
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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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