in cahoots

Idioms  

1. see in league with.

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Example Sentences

Thursday’s second indictment accuses Mr. Jones and Chauncey Billups, the coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, of participating in rigged poker games, in cahoots with affiliates of the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese and Bonanno crime families.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the U.S. also accuses Mr. Maduro and his generals of sitting atop the Venezuelan narco group known as the Cartel of the Suns and of being in cahoots with another U.S.-designated Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Several recent scandals have suggested Morena politicians were in cahoots with organized crime.

From Los Angeles Times

At another, Horne may have responded to Kennedy’s disbelief at the suggestion that the FBI in the South was in cahoots with racists by drawling, “But, Mister Attorney General, you’ve never been a Negro being questioned by the FBI in the deep South … have you?”

From Slate

Related Words

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• consolidated
• cooperative
• homogeneous
• integrated
• linked
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