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a perfect stranger

a person you have never seen, a total stranger In New York, a perfect stranger asked her to sleep with him.

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a total stranger

one you have never seen, a perfect stranger """Can I give you a ride home?"" ""No. You're a total stranger."""

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make strange

be afraid of a stranger, cry when a stranger comes Ali makes strange when we have visitors. He cries and tries to hide.

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perfect stranger

(See a perfect stranger)

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total stranger

(See a total stranger)

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strange to say

not what sb．might think 说也奇怪
Strange to say，Jerry doesn't like candy．奇怪，杰瑞不喜欢糖果。

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Truth is stranger than fiction.

Events in real life are sometimes stranger than in fiction.

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Strange at the best of times

To describe someone or something as really weird or unpleasant in a mild way.

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strange to say|say|strange

adv. phr. Not what you might think; surprisingly. Used for emphasis. Strange to say, Jerry doesn't like candy. Strange to say, the Indians didn't kill Daniel Boone.

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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.

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truth is stranger than fiction

truth is stranger than fiction
Real life can be more remarkable than invented tales, as in In our two-month trip around the world we ran into long-lost relatives on three separate occasions, proving that truth is stranger than fiction. This expression may have been invented by Byron, who used it in Don Juan (1833).