The Devil's Dictionary: Alliance

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
ALLEGIANCE
ALLIGATOR

ALLIANCE

-n.

In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

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