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#127795 04/27/04 12:33 AM
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While on a trip last week, the women accused several of the men of being "in cahoots with" one another ... in a most pejorative sense, I think. What is this "cahoot" in which we were accused of being?


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Ooooo, F.S., what were you guys up to? When men are in cahoots, you know they are up to some mischief.


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Father Steve, you openly admit this? I am shocked--shocked, I tell you!
Definition
cahoots [Show phonetics]
plural noun INFORMAL
in cahoots (with) acting together with others for an illegal or dishonest purpose

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=10770&dict=CALD


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I concede nothing about the nefarity of our schemes, but it did have something to do with slipping off to see a Mariners game while the women were left to the much more important task of shopping.


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And what exactly were these sailors playing? This surely would have some bearing on the nefariousness or otherwise of your watching them.

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slipping off to see a Mariners game

Baseball, m'dear. Major league baseball, 'tho the way the Mariners have been playing it at the beginning of this season, you might not recognize it as such.


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Not that I would anyway


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