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bedfellow

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bed·fel·low  (bdfl)
n.
1. A bedmate.
2. One that is closely associated or allied with another: "Stupidity here makes an easy bedfellow, as always, with racialism" Christopher Hitchens.

bedfellow
Noun
1. a temporary associate
2. a person with whom one shares a bed
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.bedfellowbedfellow - a temporary associate; "politics makes strange bedfellows"
associate - a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor; "he had to consult his associate before continuing"
2.bedfellow - a person with whom you share a bed
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
Translations
Spanish bedfellow [ˈbɛdfɛləu] n they are strange bedfellows (fig) → hacen una pareja rara
French bedfellow [ˈbɛdfɛləu] n they are strange bedfellows (fig) → ça fait un drôle de mélange
German bedfellow [ˈbɛdfɛləu] n they are strange bedfellows (fig) → sie sind ein merkwürdiges Gespann
Italian bedfellow [ˈbɛdfɛləu] n they are strange bedfellows (fig) → fanno una coppia ben strana

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And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories, tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow --a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree.
  Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge
At four o'clock, on such a roseate summer's morning as even made Great Gaunt Street look cheerful, the faithful Tinker, having wakened her bedfellow, and bid her prepare for departure, unbarred and unbolted the great hall door (the clanging and clapping whereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street), and taking her way into Oxford Street, summoned a coach from a stand there.
 
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