词汇 | cahoots |
词源 | cahoots. To be in partnership, often shady partnership, with. There are two theories about cahoots. First, that the word de- rives from the French cahute, “cabin,” suggesting that the two in cahoots shared a cabin together. Or, second, more probably, that cahoots derives from the French cahorte, “a gang.” |
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