It wasn't even noon yesterday and the 13th Street Winery's bakery was out of cherry tarts. They had various flavours of butter tarts - one said its ingredients were everything a nanimo bar had in it AND it was a butter tart. Now that sounds tasty.
The expression in cahoots has its entry in Wiktionary:
This word was used in popular English literature in the early nineteenth century. It comes perhaps from French cahute (“cabin”), from Old French [Term?], possibly blend of cabane (“cabin”), and hutte (“hut”). Also thought to be from French cohorte, or a slang form of English cohort in the meaning "accomplice."
The meaning of the expression - "Cahoot" is used almost exclusively in the phrase "in cahoots," which means "in an alliance or partnership." In most contexts, it describes the conspiring activity of people up to no good.
I must have seen something with this expression. I could have seen it in many contexts. It's a bar, a publisher, an album, a theatre company, a survey conducted by the Manitoba government.
Carl Sandburg has a poem titled Cahoots:
PLAY it across the table. What if we steal this city blind? If they want any thing let 'em nail it down.
Harness bulls, dicks, front office men, And the high goats up on the bench, Ain't they all in cahoots? Ain't it fifty-fifty all down the line, Petemen, dips, boosters, stick-ups and guns-what's to hinder?
Go fifty-fifty. If they nail you call in a mouthpiece. Fix it, you gazump, you slant-head, fix it. Feed 'em ...
Nothin' ever sticks to my fingers, nah, nah, nothin' like that, But there ain't no law we got to wear mittens-huh-is there? Mittens, that's a good one-mittens! There oughta be a law everybody wear mittens. ~Carl Sandburg
We were in St. Catharines at the theatre yesterday for a Norm Foster play. Gerry won the fifty/fifty draw and I got these pictures of the lanterns in the ceiling of the lounge.
