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bedfellow

[bed-fel-oh]

noun

Also called bedmate. a person who shares one's bed.

an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency: Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English bedfelow. See bed, fellow

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bedfellow (ˈbɛdˌfɛləʊ)

—n
1.	a person with whom one shares a bed
2.	a temporary ally or associate

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"It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting."

-Henry David Thoreau

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