be in cahoots

be in cahoots

To be working together in secret, often with an air of unseemliness. Those two have been whispering all day. I wonder what they're in cahoots about. I think all of those kids are in cahoots because they're all on the surveillance video from the night of the robbery.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

be in caˈhoots (with somebody)

(informal) be planning or doing something dishonest with somebody else: Some people believe that the company directors are in cahoots with the government.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • cahoots
  • be in bed with
  • be in bed with somebody/something
  • in cahoots
  • in cahoots (with someone)
  • in cahoots with someone
  • give the game away
  • give the show away
  • give the (whole) show away
  • wonder
References in periodicals archive
There are times when the world wears the colors and the shadows of our inner life, when reality and imagination appear to be in cahoots. "The imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself," Blake wrote.