joined at the hip
idiom
informal
—used to describe two people who are often or usually together
She and her sister used to be joined at the hip when they were kids.
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Hackman and wife were 'joined at the hip,' flight instructor says
Andy Wells, a flight instructor who flew with Hackman, spoke about the couple's close relationship in an interview with Fox News published Wednesday.
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Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
In a brutal Unsanctioned Match in front of a raucous crowd in Toronto, Owens defeated Zayn in vicious fashion, the latest development in the seemingly never-ending saga between two stars who’ve been joined at the hip for much of their WWE careers.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Four years later, Will proposed on the main stage at the ESSENCE Festival—and the Packers have been joined at the hip ever since.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Feb. 2025
Actually, the two are joined at the hip, relying on the same technology and personnel.
—Thomas Bass
author, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The evolution of the PBMs Medco and Express Scripts tells a story of how one way of controlling the drug supply chain by being joined at the hip with a pharmaceutical manufacturer, over time morphed into a different version of a similarly problematic consolidation.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
But the two governments are hardly joined at the hip—a fact that would become evident in the event of a military crisis.
—Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2024
Future candidates and news creators are joined at the hip in the need to understand the characteristics of real trust and how to earn it.
—Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
And understanding that pleasure and pain relief are not necessarily joined at the hip might help the rest of us be less moralistic about adversity in everyday life.
—Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2024
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Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
In a brutal Unsanctioned Match in front of a raucous crowd in Toronto, Owens defeated Zayn in vicious fashion, the latest development in the seemingly never-ending saga between two stars who’ve been joined at the hip for much of their WWE careers.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Four years later, Will proposed on the main stage at the ESSENCE Festival—and the Packers have been joined at the hip ever since.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Feb. 2025
Actually, the two are joined at the hip, relying on the same technology and personnel.
—Thomas Bass
author, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The evolution of the PBMs Medco and Express Scripts tells a story of how one way of controlling the drug supply chain by being joined at the hip with a pharmaceutical manufacturer, over time morphed into a different version of a similarly problematic consolidation.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
But the two governments are hardly joined at the hip—a fact that would become evident in the event of a military crisis.
—Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2024
Future candidates and news creators are joined at the hip in the need to understand the characteristics of real trust and how to earn it.
—Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
And understanding that pleasure and pain relief are not necessarily joined at the hip might help the rest of us be less moralistic about adversity in everyday life.
—Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Joined at the hip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joined%20at%20the%20hip. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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