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hand in glove
Idioms and Phrases
On intimate terms, in close association, as in The internist is hand in glove with the surgeon, so you'd better get a second opinion . This metaphoric expression for a close fit was already included in John Ray's 1678 collection of proverbs, when it was put hand and glove .Example Sentences
It's my belief you're hand-in-glove with Choo Hoo, for all your tender ways—dear me!
General Gutchkoff was a Jew and the director of the dreaded political police, with whom Rogogin, of course, worked hand-in-glove.
But what if Borkins and Merriton had been working hand-in-glove, and then, somehow or other, had had a split?
Tregurtha came walking informally through the garden, for was he not hand-in-glove with the admiral?
There is no doubt that, in a certain sense, all inns were anciently hand-in-glove with the highwaymen.
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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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