- Strange bedfellows
The
idiom atic English expession strange bedfellows is used in reference to situations wherein political or other mutual interests can bring together people who otherwise have little in common. This saying is taken from a line in "The Tempest " byWilliam Shakespeare , spoken by ashipwreck ed man who finds himself seeking shelter beside a sleepingmonster : :“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” [" [http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/politicsmake.html Politics makes strange bedfellows] ", "The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy ", Third Edition, E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil, editors,Houghton Mifflin Company ,2002 ]Strange Bedfellows may also refer to:
Films
* "
Strange Bedfellows (1965 film) ", a 1965 film
* "The Strange Bedfellow ", a 1986 Hong Kong film
* "Strange Bedfellows (2004 film) ", a 2004 film
*The Bedfellowship of East Brunswick, starring Aniket and Jeremy (2008 Film) , a 2008 filmTV episodes
* , an episode of ""
*Strange Bedfellows (The Drew Carey Show) , an episode of "The Drew Carey Show "
*Strange Bedfellows (The Golden Girls) , an episode of "The Golden Girls "
*Strange Bedfellows (Oz) , an episode of Oz
* Strange Bedfellows is also an episode of SharkComics
*
Strange Bedfellows (Angel comic) , a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the "Angel" television series.Sports
* Strange Bedfellows is the name for a type of match in
professional wrestling in which rivals are required to compete as part of the same team.References
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