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be joined at the hip

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be joined at the hip
if you say that two people are joined at the hip, you mean that they are very friendly with each other and spend more time together than is usual I can go to London without Mike. We're not joined at the hip, you know.
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One of the most critical lessons that Berntsen shares is the need for CIA and military personnel to be joined at the hip in the field, sharing information immediately, rather than sending it up stovepipes to their respective headquarters and then waiting for a filtered version to trickle back down to their partners based just a few yards away.
Had anyone told me years ago I would someday be joined at the hip to my computer, I would have laughed.
Based on those discussions, it was decided to establish a DAU satellite office at Eglin that "would be joined at the hip with [A.
 
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