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bedfellow

[ bed-fel-oh ]

noun

  1. Also called bedmate. a person who shares one's bed.
  2. an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency:

    Politics makes strange bedfellows.



bedfellow

/ ˈɛˌɛəʊ /

noun

  1. a person with whom one shares a bed
  2. a temporary ally or associate
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bedfellow1

First recorded in 1400–50, bedfellow is from the late Middle English word bedfelow. See bed, fellow
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The strange bedfellows of capitalism and politics, and should they necessarily be so closely intertwined with one another?

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In one email from the time, the officer wrote that the SAS and murder were "regular bedfellows" and described the regiment's official descriptions of operational killings as "quite incredible".

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But his positions against food additives have also brought support from unlikely bedfellows who have criticized other parts of his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.

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But fate is a fickle, unreliable bedfellow, especially for directors.

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Politics can create strange bedfellows, and they don't come much stranger than the country's most prominent democratic socialist and the world's richest man.

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