bedfellow
noun
bed·fel·low
ˈbed-ˌfe-(ˌ)lō
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 thingsPolitics indeed makes strange bedfellows and on the issue of local regulation of pesticides, environmental and states' rights advocates have joined forces.—Elena S. Rutrick
Polities and good architecture are strange bedfellows, but in Barcelona the marriage has worked.—Cathleen McGuigan
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