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join forces
Idioms and Phrases
Act together, combine efforts. For example, The public relations people joined forces to get better coverage for their candidates . This expression originally referred to combining military forces. [Mid-1500s]Example Sentences
If the Americans are going to lump them together with ISIS, maybe best to join forces.
The minute you start putting in Western forces even some Libyans who hate the militants will join forces with them.
Will they join forces and battle the White Walkers together?
And we all continue to join forces to honor and support our remarkable military families.
U.S. and Canada should join forces, says Diane Francis, author of the new book Merger of the Century.
He had been scouring the country on his own account, and he was willing enough to join forces with Mark Twain.
If the maid had gone off first, I had to consider whether they would not again join forces as soon as I was well out of the way.
We would join forces in genteel fashion, and have ourselves straightened out some day before the mayor.
Here they easily persuaded the Messenians to join forces with them and declare war against the Spartans.
Here they hoped to join forces with Montgomery, who had already captured Montreal, and then come back to renew the siege.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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