Re: thick as thieves

From: Robert Tucker (roberttucker_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 03/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:48:18 +0100

retrosorter wrote:

>A friend of mine plays in a band in Montreal called "Thick as
>Thieves" and he asked me how his band's name should be translated in
>French. Clearly, "Gras commme un voleur" won't do as the sense here is
>corpulence rather than closeness. Does anybody know a French idiomatic
>expression that would be an equivalent to "thick as thieves" or have a
>suggestion of how to translate this into French in a catchy manner?
>
>
>
It's really a bit irritating that "in cahoots" does not translate to "en
cahutes" here.

[Harrap's: "to be in cahoots with someone" - " être de mèche avec qn"]

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