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cahootsca‧hoots /kəˈhuːts/ noun cahootsOrigin: 1800-1900 Perhaps from French cahute ‘small wooden building’ - A supermarket assistant, in cahoots with a customer, wrapped goods and deliberately understated the price.
- Are they in cahoots with that mad biker From Leicester?
- But Mr Espina has his work cut out to convince people that he was not in cahoots with Mr Serrano.
- I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst.
- Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark?
- Some dealers tried to convey the false impression that the two markets were in cahoots.
- Sun is reportedly not in cahoots.
- Those who floated to the surface were merely declared to be in cahoots with the devil.
when people do something together in a dishonest way► be in league with if someone is in league with a group of people, they are secretly planning and working with them in order to do something dishonest or illegal: · Anyone suspected of being in league with the rebels was arrested.· There was a suggestion that the authorities were in league with the drug dealers. ► in collusion with if one group of people is in collusion with another group, they are all working secretly together to do something dishonest: · Some of the police force were working in collusion with the Mafia.· Journalists suspected that the army was acting in collusion with the terrorists. ► be in cahoots (with) working secretly and closely with another person or group in order to do something dishonest or cheat someone: · Assassins, in cahoots with the army, were sent to kill two top members of the parliament.· By the middle of the book we've learned that the church and the local politicians are in cahoots to try to slow Sonja's research. ► hand in glove with somebody British if one organization is hand in glove with another organization, they work together very closely in order to do something dishonest, or dishonestly get power: · The politicians are hand in glove with the military, everyone knows that. ► be in cahoots (with somebody)- Rogers is accused of being in cahoots with the mafia.
- Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark?
- Some dealers tried to convey the false impression that the two markets were in cahoots.
- Those who floated to the surface were merely declared to be in cahoots with the devil.
be in cahoots (with somebody) to be working secretly with another person or group, especially in order to do something dishonest: The Forest Service and the timber industry were in cahoots. |