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Значение идиомы in league with
[in league with] or {informal} [in cahoots with] {prep.} In secretagreement or partnership with ; working together secretlywith, especially for harm.
People once believed that some womenwere witches in league with the devil.
The mayor’s enemies spreada rumor that he was in cahoots with gangsters.
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