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bedfellow
[ bed-fel-oh ]
noun
- Also called bedmate. a person who shares one's bed.
- an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency:
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
bedfellow
/ ˈɛˌɛəʊ /
noun
- a person with whom one shares a bed
- a temporary ally or associate
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bedfellow1
Example Sentences
The strange bedfellows of capitalism and politics, and should they necessarily be so closely intertwined with one another?
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".
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.
But fate is a fickle, unreliable bedfellow, especially for directors.
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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