Meaning & use
Bedfellow
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A person who shares a bed with another, or, figuratively, an associate or ally, often an unlikely or uncomfortable one.
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Politics, as they say, makes strange bedfellows.
The two rival companies became unexpected bedfellows in the joint venture.
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The figurative use of 'bedfellow' to mean an unlikely ally became famous through the Shakespearean line 'misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows' in The Tempest.
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