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strange bedfellows

strange bedfellows noun: an unusual combination or political alliance.

Noun

strange bedfellows pl (normally plural, singular strange bedfellow)

  1. (idiomatic, plural, plural-normally) An unusual combination or political alliance.
    • The USA and the USSR were strange bedfellows. They were united only in their opposition to Hitler and Fascism.1996, Tony Downey, Nigel Smith, Russia and the USSR, 1900-1995, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 66
    • Lacan and feminism: strange bedfellows? There never was an alliance between the person Lacan and feminism.2002, Teresa Brennan, Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis, Routledge, →ISBN

strange bedfellows meaning in Bengali

strange bedfellows in Bengali

একটি অস্বাভাবিক সমন্বয়, রাজনৈতিক জোট

Forms of strange bedfellows

singularstrange bedfellow

Origin of strange bedfellows

1610, from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Questions about strange bedfellows

What does strange bedfellows mean?
Strange bedfellows means an unusual combination or political alliance.
What is strange bedfellows in Bengali?
Strange bedfellows in Bengali is একটি অস্বাভাবিক সমন্বয়, রাজনৈতিক জোট. See Strange bedfellows meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is strange bedfellows?
Strange bedfellows is a noun.

Words near strange bedfellows in the dictionary

  1. strang
  2. strange
  3. strange attractor
  4. strange attractors
  5. strange bedfellow
  6. strange bedfellows
  7. strange bird
  8. strange birds
  9. strange fish
  10. strange fruit
  11. strange loop

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