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“Strange bedfellows” is a phrase coined by Shakespeare. Its full context is “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” It has come to mean finding oneself in a difficult situation forces one to associate with a condition or person (or persons) that they would not normally have anything to do with. Origin of “strange bedfellows”
Although strictly speaking bedfellows are persons who share a bed, like husband and wife, the term has been used figuratively since the late 1400s. This particular idiom may have been invented by Shakespeare in The Tempest (2:2), “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
Strange Bedfellows: Directed by Vincent McEveety. With Peter Falk, George Wendt, Jeff Yagher, Jay Acovone. When Graham McVeigh kills his brother and frames a mob bookie for the crime, and then kills the bookie and claims self-defense, he finds himself facing trouble from both Columbo and the bookie's superior in the mob.
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- Vincent McEveety
- 1995-05-08
1. : one who shares a bed with another. 2. : a person or thing closely associated with another : ally. political bedfellows. often used in the phrase strange bedfellows to describe an unlikely alliance of people or things.
strange bedfellows. A pair of people, things, or groups connected in a certain situation or activity but extremely different in overall characteristics, opinions, ideologies, lifestyles, behaviors, etc.
Strange Bedfellows is a main quest in the Fallout 76 update Wastelanders. Speaking with the Vault 76 overseer will inform the player character of the two major factions in Appalachia that have come into the area, the Settlers and the Raiders.
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