in cahoots

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.

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

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?”

The language used in the article, along with the selection of smiling rather than austere-looking faces of the photogenic Horne, Hansberry, and Baldwin to accompany it, suggests that Layhmond Robinson may well have been in cahoots with Mills’ publicity-seeking spin on the meeting, in spirit if not necessarily through covert coordination.

Paranoia reaches a fever pitch this Emmy season with spy thrillers that imagine intelligence agencies as semicompetent puppet masters orchestrating nightmarish scenarios in opposition to, or in cahoots with, megalomaniac billionaires bent on ruling the world.