in bed with

phrase

variants or into bed with

informal

: in/into an improperly close relationship with

a legislator in bed with lobbyists

… he found himself in bed with those he used to see as the wrong kind of people …

—Ronald Radosh

The administration had gotten into bed with an obscure guerrilla army with which it had, in truth, few sympathies.

—Mark Dennis et al.

Word History

First Known Use

1931, in the meaning defined above