in bed with
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- Sharing one's bed with.
- (figuratively) Engaging in a close mutually beneficial relationship, especially secretly and illicitly.
- Synonym: in cahoots with
- He's not for the company; he's in bed with the investment bankers.
- 2004 March 3, Paul Foot, “In bed with the Tories”, in The Guardian[2]:
- On the central issue in foreign affairs—the Iraq war—these ministers have been in bed with the Tories from the outset.