bedfellows

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bedfellows

1. Literally, one who shares a bed with someone else. A: "This bed's big enough for two, so we can be bedfellows for the night." B: "No way! Not after you kicked me last time." My husband snores, so I think those old-fashioned couples had it right not to be bedfellows.
2. Someone closely connected to or associated with someone else. A notorious playboy musician and an ultra-conservative media pundit may be strange bedfellows, but the two are coming together all this month to bring a spotlight to suicide awareness. I thought that the two writers would make odd bedfellows, given the drastically different nature of their writing, but the books they've co-written actually work really well.
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  • être
  • Chinaman
  • (one) must have killed a Chinaman
  • beat the pants off
  • beat the pants off (of) (someone)
  • beat the pants off someone
  • beat the socks off (of) (someone)
  • explode with
  • explode with (something)
References in periodicals archive
PPP, the great defender of democracy and liberal values, is bedfellows with parties upholding and promoting right-wing ideals all to eke out some space in a province it had surrendered due to its own incompetence.
If, in my blithe acceptance of the relationship between good plant-bad plant, I had ever stopped to think about whether they would be bedfellows in other parts of the world, I would likely have seen no reason for that not to be the case.
In the promo for episode 12, "Strange Bedfellows" Angelo is seen asking a worried Cookie what Anika has on her.
Which is why such strange bedfellows as the Christian Institute and National Secular Society are against them.
These chronic issues--at this point strange yet familiar bedfellows that intactivists must effectively address--played a role in several recent events: protections of circumcision instituted in the wake of the German court case through a German parliamentary resolution and a letter from the Austrian Justice Ministry; the legal case that puzzlingly pre-empted the San Francisco ballot initiative without a vote taking place; and the ultimately unsuccessful attempts to reverse the Colorado Medicaid victory.
These are the two guiding questions that Meredith Ralston and Edna Keeble examine throughout their engaging book Reluctant Bedfellows.
Howard Richler documents this fact amply in his new book Strange Bedfellows: The Private Lives of Words.
Summary: The Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives are not natural bedfellows - what has been given up to try and make a power-share work?
ELECTION- TIME makes strange bedfellows. Two pairs of leaders, who traditionally have pulled faces at each other, have now been caught smiling for the camera.
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"They are our bedfellows and curious bedfellows for a democratic country to have," Coonan said.
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Rock 'n' roll antics and Test cricket are unlikely bedfellows and I cannot condone such high jinks.
With difficult economic times upon us, benefits plan sponsors and plan members have become strange bedfellows in their desire to cut pharmacy benefits costs without sacrificing coverage.
The complaints include snoring, taking too much space and being bashed as unsettled bedfellows thrash about, reports The Sun.