in cahoots
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“We’re almost all in cahoots, or unconsciously have agreed to society being this way . . . and we’ve been born into it,” she said.
From Salon
For its part, the M23 said the DR Congo army had launched an air and ground assault against its positions, and this was done in cahoots with Burundian forces.
From BBC
Our one and only lead to escaping Asamando is in cahoots with Nansi—the same god trying to melt me down for his goddess-creation project.
From Literature
“Don’t tell me you two are in cahoots! How cheeky. Does that mean we can go to bed now? I am quite exhausted; what a dull evening it has been.”
From Literature
Within hours of arriving in Venice, he begins to suspect that the city itself, with its disorienting streets and shady denizens, is somehow in cahoots with his sphinxlike wife to betray him.
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