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Idiom: Be in bed together
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
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To be in bed together means to be working or involved with an organization or person in a way that causes distrust among other people.
It has nothing to do with beds or whatever you were thinking about earlier.
Often things like corruption, price-fixing or tax evasion require people or businesses to be in bed together.
From 2001 to 2015, the seven major bread producers made a deal to fix the price of bread in Canada.
That is as exciting as scandals tend to be in Canada, but it is an example of what happens when competing companies are in bed together.
Things like this occur all the time.
Construction companies involved in reconstruction after The Great East Japan Earthquake were in bed together when it came to providing materials and constructing the MagLev line from Tokyo to Nagoya.
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When there is money to be made, companies doing everything from producing bread to excavating tunnels are willing to be in bed together if it means more profit.
Yes, when scandals are uncovered, they always leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Yet, they continue to happen.
It may even be happening in your own office as you read this.
Is the promotion process completely transparent? Have you ever wondered why one person has received a raise but you have not?
It may be because someone in management is in bed together with someone else in management and has made a backroom deal to promote one person over another.
Always be on the lookout for corruption.
We never know who is in bed with who.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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