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the bedfellows
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One with whom one shares a bed.
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The bedfellows could not be stranger.
It seems that the bedfellows of the Bush administration now extend beyond the oil industry.
Occasionally, though, the bedfellows jar; it is odd to find the British Conservative Michael Oakeshott in the same tent as the French Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre.Adaptability is one reason for thinking that liberalism can withstand today's challenges.
By Hendrik Hertzberg When Senator James Jeffords, of Vermont, pulled up his pajamas and jumped out of the Republican sack last week, it was a reminder that the bedfellows politics makes can get a little too strange.
What use would it be for us to become a vague copy of reformist parties, which always end up as the bedfellows of the dominant class?" Despite such flights of revolutionary rhetoric, the Socialists ended up less as bedfellows of the dominant class than the dominant class themselves.
Of course with hindsight being 20/20, and history at our fingertips, it's easy to recommend that conceptually romantic marriages are likely to be lost if the bedfellows are dishonest before the nuptials.
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"Blue Valentine," true to its title, is overwhelming proof that hurt is the bedfellow of love.
It was clear to the Labour negotiators that the Lib Dems had made their minds up early that David Cameron was the bedfellow they wanted.
Ruthlessness and venality, it is tacitly suggested, are the inevitable bedfellows of the unstoppable determination to nail the story.
My views are closer to some on the left than to, say, Henry Kissinger.' Such are the curious bedfellows of the war on terror.
What they got instead, while no less historic, was a glimpse of the strange-bedfellows-for-the-moment friendship between the two men, once bitter rivals.
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