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n. (context idiomatic English) An unusual combination or political alliance
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Usage examples of "strange bedfellows".
Citizen Admiral Agnelli, Carson's theoretical ally currently controlled three more, but Agnelli and Carson had been strange bedfellows from the beginning.
Not, perhaps, for the same reasons which had produced Houseman's obvious pleasure, but he'd long since accepted that politics made strange bedfellows.
It's just an illustration of the old gag about adversity making strange bedfellows.
I realize that discussing kiddie sniffles and herpes simplex in the same breath is a bit -- incongruous, shall we say, but we are dealing with the demon Virus here, which makes for strange bedfellows, to say nothing of making bedfellows strange.