make common cause

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make common cause (slightly formal)

to work together to achieve something A number of groups have made common cause with local people to stop the highway from being built. The two countries have begun to make common cause against shared enemies.

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The colonel launched a volley of oaths, denouncing the railway company and the conductor; and Passepartout, who was furious, was not disinclined to make common cause with him. Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context But mind you never make common cause with any of those foolish suitors, for they have neither sense nor virtue, and give no thought to death and to the doom that will shortly fall on one and all of them, so that they shall perish on the same day. The Odyssey by Homer View in context			make an ass of make an entrance make an example of make an exception make an exhibition of make an honest woman of make an impression on make an offer make application make arrangements make arrangements for make arrangements to do make at home make available to make away with make bed make believe make believe that make blood boil make blood run cold make book on make certain of make change make chin music make clear to make common cause make common cause with make cracks about make day make demands of make do and mend make eat crow make ends meet make every effort to do make eyes at make faces make feel small make flesh crawl make for somewhere make free with make friends with make fun of make good make good as make good money make good on make good time make gorge rise make great play of make hair stand on end make hard work of			Make Busy Arrangements Make Buy make by mechanical industry make calm make capable make capital make capital out of make captive make captive again make certain make certain of make change make charges against Make Check Turn Make Child Poverty History make chin music Make Chinese Angry make claims upon make clean make clear make clear by examples make clear to make cognizant make comfortable make common cause make common cause with make common cause with make compatible make compensation make competent make complete make comprehensible make compulsory make concessions make concise make confident make conformable make connection Make Connor Proud make consistent make conspicuous make contact make contact make contiguous Make Contract Farming Work make conveyance of make corporeal make corrections make corrupt make cracks about make day make day make day make day

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