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Difference between In each other’s pockets and In someone’s pocket

in each other’s pockets —(coll.) associating closely to the extent of losing privacy; being together too much:

  • At our winter camp we live in each other’s pockets for six months without seeing anyone else at all.

in someone’s pocket—(coll.) under smb.’s control or influence (because a person has been bribed, etc.):

  • The scandals investigated included a building official who was in the pocket of a local developer.