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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.
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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.
Strange Bedfellows è un film del 2004 diretto da Dean Murphy. È un film commedia australiano con Michael Caton e Paul Hogan nel ruolo di due uomini eterosessuali che si spacciano per una coppia omosessuale al fine di ottenere benefici finanziari da parte del governo.
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.”
