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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”
Strani compagni di letto ( Strange Bedfellows) è un film diretto dal regista Melvin Frank, con protagonisti Rock Hudson e Gina Lollobrigida, alla loro seconda prova cinematografica insieme.
- 98 min
- 1965
- Strange Bedfellows
- Stati Uniti d'America
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bedfellow. noun. bed· fel· low ˈbed-ˌfe- (ˌ)lō. Synonyms of bedfellow. 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.
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.”
An odd couple; a peculiar combination. Shakespeare appears to have originated the term, with his “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows” (The Tempest, 2.2). Several centuries later, Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote (The Caxtons, 1849), “Poverty has strange bedfellows.”
