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UK
/bˈɛdfɪlˌəʊ/
]
[ US /ˈbɛdˌfɛɫoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛdˌfɛɫoʊ/ ]
NOUN
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a temporary associate
politics makes strange bedfellows - a person with whom you share a bed
How To Use bedfellow In A Sentence
- There was a time when rock'n'roll and the honours system were the strangest of bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
- Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
- Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
- In fact, happiness and success are natural bedfellows. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
- It was an era that demonstrated the incompatibility of labour and government as bedfellows.
- In general, violence and romance are uneasy bedfellows.
- politics makes strange bedfellows
- If you choose good bedfellows, a garden will semi-naturalise. Times, Sunday Times
- Their convictions have led the Feminists for Life to form coalitions with all sorts of odd bedfellows.
- Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows.