bedfellow
11
7.3
- noun
- /ˈbɛdˌfɛloʊ/
:
aliado circunstancial
- In unexpected alliances, they became bedfellows in their quest for reform.
- strange bedfellows
- make bedfellows
- comfortable bedfellows
That puts us as bedfellows with Kim Jong Un.
- That puts us as bedfellows with Kim Jong Un.
- He doesn't care because Putin is his bedfellow.
- This the point you raised about how lust and love are, but not necessarily great bedfellows.
- So you know at a glance, this is a pair of strange bedfellows.
- And I too am now a strange bedfellow of yours on the commode.
Examples
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Debate over the proposed lease, which Lac du Flambeau tribal members ultimately rejected, created strange political bedfellows.
Academic text (1997) -
The environmental challenge and the flip side of globalization are strange bedfellows that may find a common cause.
Academic text (2002) -
At face value, these are not comfortable bedfellows, but without them, a home could not survive.
Academic text (2010) -
Every once in a while, necessity brings strange bedfellows together towards a common goal.
Blog text (32) -
To make bedfellows of these two groups is not so unreasonable as it might first appear.
Academic text (2002) -
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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Yes, this makes for very strange bedfellows: Seattle liberals and the Patriot Act.
Blog text (1) -
The artist found herself as a bedfellow with the scientist, collaborating on a unique project.
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During the crisis, businesses and local governments formed unusual bedfellows to address the issue.
Synonyms
5
6.6
People or things connected in an unexpected way
2
6.9
A person you share a bed with, often someone you have sex with
Antonyms
How Close
7
7.6
45
3.6
123
3.2
11
7.3
533
3.2
114
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bedfellow comes from the simple parts bed and fellow, where fellow means 'companion'. If two people share a bed they are close or sometimes forced together, so the word came to mean a partner or ally, often an unlikely or temporary one.