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Posted by R. Berg on May 20, 2003 ... : I was looking for the phrase, In cahoots. : Thank you, : Mary ... Word Detective: cahoots...
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The term 'cahoots' derives from the French 'cahute' (cabin) and is first recorded around 1820. American fur trappers on the frontier probably borrowed the word from French trappers there. Trappers living together in a cahute or cahoot were often partners, giving rise to the expression 'in cahoots with.'
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but I do like to come up with an answer sooner or later. ... Dear Mr. Word Detective, Sir: My mother likes to use the expression "in cahoots." Whenever two people or groups are hidden partners in underhanded crime, they were "in cahoots." Back in the 1970's, she claimed the car companies and big oil were "in cahoots" selling...
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I'm curious about the word cahoots, as in the expression "I'm in cahoots with her." I've used this expression and everyone knows what I mean but we can't seem to find the origin of the word. Can you? ... Most etymologists suggest that, if the word does come from brogue "shoe", the sense is one of "the speech of people...
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For some time, I have been trying to come up with a word to ask about and one day at lunch a coworker said the magic word. ... Subject: In Cahoots; Dear Mr. Word Detective Sir, My mother likes to use the expression "in cahoots". Whenever two people or groups are hidden partners in underhanded crime, they were in cahoots.
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In the Newton translation, the adjective "fantomatici" comes from a French word meaning ghost, specter. Since "fantomatici" means nonexistent but also ghostly, spectral, the expression "milioni fantomatici", like the English "phantom ... If this is what "in ecstatic cahoots" means, ... He had come a long way to this blue lawn,
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A Peckville, PA, man driving through Jessup watched a "decending Orange Ball" the size of a car come to within 500 feet of the ground, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database. (more)
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San Antonio, Life ... Rome fell, and there went central heating. Didn't come back for 1,500 years. ... Q. Where'd we get that expression "in cahoots" to mean some sort of suspect partnership?
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But FOX News and the Republicans, working in cahoots, come up with new 'facts' out of thin air and present them as the reason that the American people are losing faith in their government.
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www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/3/3/143618/1849
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