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strange bedfellows

noun as in odd couple or grouping

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Those opposition groups have some strange bedfellows, though, chief among them the Arkansas Beverage Retailers Association.

War makes strange bedfellows and the U.S. has certainly been promiscuous before choosing its allies in past wars.

These dual complaints have made for some strange bedfellows.

Politics and the Olympics have always made strange bedfellows.

Politics, as I noted, makes strange bedfellows, but only when circumstances demand it.

There's an old saying that misfortune makes strange bedfellows, but political friendship makes stranger alliances than misfortune.

Politics made strange bedfellows; Cabinets were sometimes the oddest hybrids.

"White-livered rascals; fear, like adversity, makes strange bedfellows," he exclaimed contemptuously.

They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange bedfellows."

War, I thought, not only makes strange bedfellows, but strange combinations in the histories of bedrooms.

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On this page you'll find 2 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to strange bedfellows, such as: cats and dogs, and montagues and capulets.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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