strange bedfellows
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1610, from Shakespeare's "Tempest", Act 2 Scene 2: "Alas, the storm is come again! My best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows."
Noun[edit]
strange bedfellows pl (plural only)
- (idiomatic) An unusual combination or political alliance
- "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."[1]
Translations[edit]
unusual combination or political alliance
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Politics makes strange bedfellows", The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition, E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil, editors, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002
