in cahoots
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Charges that the Panama Canal Authority is in cahoots with China have always been specious.
He said he and his twin were in cahoots on this bizarre lie.
From Los Angeles Times
With no independent justice system in place, opponents of the M23 faced repression, some accused of being in cahoots with the pro-government militia.
From Barron's
The fresh-faced blond woman, with cheeks as delicate as a china doll’s, was in cahoots with a killer?
From Literature
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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
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