be strange bedfellows Idiom, Proverb

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strange bedfellows

strange bedfellows
A peculiar alliance or combination, as in George and Arthur really are strange bedfellows, sharing the same job but totally different in their views. 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.” Today a common extension is politics makes strange bedfellows, meaning that politicians form peculiar associations so as to win more votes. A similar term is odd couple, a pair who share either housing or a business but are very different in most ways. This term gained currency with Neil Simon's Broadway play The Odd Couple and, even more, with the motion picture (1968) and subsequent television series based on it, contrasting housemates Felix and Oscar, one meticulously neat and obsessively punctual, the other extremely messy and casual.

be aberrant bedfellows

Of a brace of people, things, or groups commutual calm in a assertive bearings or activity, to be acutely altered in all-embracing characteristics, opinions, ideologies, lifestyles, behaviors, etc. The advanced actor and the bourgeois auger may be aberrant bedfellows, but the two are advancing calm all this ages to accompany a spotlight to suicide awareness. I anticipation that the two writers would be aberrant bedfellows, accustomed the acutely altered attributes of their writing, but their books absolutely accept a lot of parallels in agreement of capacity and constructs.Learn more: bedfellow, strange

be/make aberrant ˈbedfellows

be two actual altered bodies or things that you would not apprehend to acquisition together: Art and rugby may assume aberrant bedfellows, but the bounded rugby club donated £5 000 to advice armamentarium an art exhibition.A acquaintance is a being who shares a bed with somebody else.Learn more: bedfellow, make, strange

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