scheme against (someone or something)
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To form or contrive a secret or devious plan or conspiracy in order to oppose, overthrow, or undermine someone or something; to plot against someone or something. A group of lower-level executives have been scheming against the CEO in a bid to wrest control of the company away from him. It turns out that they had been scheming against the alliance since the day it was formed.
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scheme against someone or something
to plot or conspire against someone or something. A group of generals was plotting against the government. They schemed against the king until he caught them and put an end to it.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
- avenge (oneself) against (someone or something)
- be left in charge (of someone or something)
- accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
- accompany on a journey
- be/have done with somebody/something
- be put in charge (of someone or something)
- be in line with (someone or something)
- better of
- (someone or something) promises well
- begin with