in bed with
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Sharing one's bed with.
- People also ask me what was it like being in bed with Sean Connery. I said, ‘Fine.’2020 November 3, Stuart Jeffries, quoting Tsai Chin, “Tsai Chin: 'What was it like being in bed with Sean Connery? Fine'”, in The Guardian:
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Figuratively Engaging in a close mutually beneficial relationship, especially secretly and illicitly.
- He's not for the company; he's in bed with the investment bankers.
- On the central issue in foreign affairs—the Iraq war—these ministers have been in bed with the Tories from the outset.2004 March 3, Paul Foot, “In bed with the Tories”, in The Guardian:
- Related terms
- get into bed with, strange bedfellows