in cahoots

In Cahoots is a Canterbury scene band led by guitarist Phil Miller, their main composer.The band was formed in 1982 by Miller with Pip Pyle(†) (drums), Elton Dean(†) (saxophone), Peter Lemer (keyboards) and Richard Sinclair (bass). Miller and Pyle had been working together in National Health and had been in Hatfield and the North with Sinclair before that, while Pyle and Dean were longstanding collaborators too, recently having worked together in Soft Heap. Early in 1985, Hugh Hopper replaced Sinclair. The band appear on Miller's first solo album, Cutting Both Ways (released 1987).
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like partners, helping each other I think the judge and lawyer are in cahoots - working together.

Synonyms and related words:
affiliate, affiliated, allied, associate, associated, cabalistic, confederate, confederated, conspiratorial, corporate, coupled, enleagued, federate, federated, in collaboration, in collusion, in cooperation, in league, in partnership, in with, leagued, married, paired, partners with, teamed, wed, wedded
  

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