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单词 bedfellow
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bedfellow

(bedfeloʊ)
Word forms: plural bedfellows
countable noun [usually plural]
You refer to two things or people as bedfellows when they have become associated or related in some way.
It's possible to be bedfellows with someone on one issue, and at odds with them onanother.
Sex and death are strange bedfellows.

bedfellow in British English

(ˈbɛdˌfɛləʊ)
noun
1. 
a person with whom one shares a bed
2. 
a temporary ally or associate

bedfellow in American English

(ˈbɛdˌfɛloʊ)
noun
1. 
a person who shares one's bed
2. 
an associate, ally, confederate, etc.

Examples of 'bedfellow' in a sentence
bedfellow

Logic and rugby are not natural bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
What a fine pair of bedfellows they make.
The Sun (2010)
But would he accept that football and athletics are uneasy bedfellows?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
This mixture of costs and benefits makes for strange political bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They might be unlikely bedfellows but they complement each other perfectly.
Bain, Roly Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning (1993)
Two ideologically opposed camps often become strange bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Excellence and fascination are not always natural bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
These two very different genres do not good bedfellows make.
The Sun (2010)
The two festivals make easy bedfellows because they have many similarities.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Technology and sheets also make bad bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Strange bedfellows can make for memorable nights.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Yet they are sometimes uneasy bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In the pursuit of riches, it has chosen to lie with some odd bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Rock and visual art have long been natural bedfellows, of course.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
These voters made slightly uneasy bedfellows with the students and Greens boosting the party.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There was a time when rock'n'roll and the honours system were the strangest of bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Regulatory rigour and white-hot technological progress are not natural bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Here we find strange bedfellows: oil producers and environmentalists.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In fact, happiness and success are natural bedfellows.
Paul Martin MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE (2005)
 Unlikely bedfellows, you might think.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Politics and religion, uneasy bedfellows?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The EU referendum has forced some unlikely bedfellows to perform all sorts of mental contortions.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
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