make common cause
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make common cause
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Possibly a calque of French faire cause commune, first attested in the same period (1787).
verb makes common cause · making common cause · made common cause
- To cooperate, to enter into an alliance for a shared goal. […] in a great community, the reformer has the voice and approbation of a majority to encourage him. In a very narrow circle he will have no part of the society, in which he lives, to support him against the rest. They will all make common cause against him, and sooner or later overcome his resoluti
