strange bedfellows
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Etymology edit
1610, from Shakespeare's The Tempest.[1]
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strange bedfellows pl (normally plural, singular strange bedfellow)
- (idiomatic) An unusual combination or political alliance.
- 2002, Teresa Brennan, Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Lacan and feminism: strange bedfellows? There never was an alliance between the person Lacan and feminism.
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unusual combination or political alliance
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References edit
- ^ 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 9:
- Alas, the storm is come again! My best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.