Thesaurus / bedfellow
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The tax measures are major wins for anti-smoking advocates after a string of defeats but, in an example of how politics makes strange bedfellows, Colorado’s tax might not have been possible without Altria’s help.
BIG TOBACCO STANDS DOWN AS COLORADO AND OREGON HIKE CIGARETTE TAXESLYDIA BELANGERJANUARY 9, 2021FORTUNE
Fiery grain liquor and highway maintenance are strange bedfellows.
WHY CHINA’S PRIZED BOOZE COMPANY IS HELPING BAIL OUT A HIGHWAY BUILDERMARY HUISEPTEMBER 18, 2020QUARTZ
Wallace crept into bed beside his communicative bedfellow in silence.
WAYSIDE COURTSHIPSHAMLIN GARLAND
He first made an attempt on the apprentice, his bedfellow; but he struggled so far as to effect his escape, and hid himself.
He implores mercy for his “desolate bedfellow,” for her children, and for his sons by his first wife.
JOHN KNOX AND THE REFORMATIONANDREW LANG
My bedfellow and I slept on an oilcloth, covered with an overcoat, and tied our four feet up together in a flannel shirt.
UNDER THE STARS AND BARSWALTER A. CLARK
Why do they hardly feel that they have prayed if company, or a bedfellow, on a journey, keeps them from using oral prayer?
BERTHA AND HER BAPTISMNEHEMIAH ADAMS
To guard against this possibility he is to sleep between my foreman and myself—delectable bedfellow he'll prove, doubtless.
ROOSEVELT IN THE BAD LANDSH. HAGEDORN.
No, no, captain; you forget Rose; she's to be my bedfellow, you know.
THE RECRUITING OFFICERGEORGE FARQUHAR
For thus it stood with Cûr: No joy was it to be his bedfellow or to live with him.
WORDS RELATED TO BEDFELLOW
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.