Definition
An unusual combination or political alliance.
Origins
1610, from Shakespeare's The Tempest.
In Context
- "The USA and the USSR were strange bedfellows. They were united only in their opposition to Hitler and Fascism."
- "Lacan and feminism: strange bedfellows? There never was an alliance between the person Lacan and feminism."
See Also
- in bed with
- make common cause
- unholy alliance