adversity makes strange bedfellows
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1611 SHAKESPEARE Tempest II. ii. 37 My best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
1837 DICKENS Pickwick Papers xli. (heading) Illustrative..of the old proverb, that adversity brings a man acquainted with strange bedfellows.
1927 Times 27 Aug. 12 The..alliance of 1923–5 was an illustration of the adage that adversity makes strange bedfellows.
1982 Times 15 Mar. 9 (heading) Poverty makes strange bedfellows.
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politics makes strange bedfellows — Politics has long been considered a plural noun; its use with a singular verb is comparatively recent. A well established variant of adversity makes strange bedfellows. 1839 P. HONE Diary 9 July (1927) I. 404 Party politics, like poverty, bring… … Proverbs new dictionary
strange — see adversity makes strange bedfellows politics makes strange bedfellows fact is stranger than fiction truth is stranger than fiction … Proverbs new dictionary
adversity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Ill fortune Nouns 1. (difficulty) adversity, affliction; bad, ill, adverse, or hard luck or fortune, Weltschmerz; evil lot; force majeur, frowns of fortune; evil star or genius; ups and downs of life,… … English dictionary for students
adversity — see adversity makes strange bedfellows … Proverbs new dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind … Proverbs new dictionary
bedfellow — see adversity makes strange bedfellows politics makes strange bedfellows … Proverbs new dictionary
poverty — see when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience poverty is not a crime adversity makes strange bedfellows … Proverbs new dictionary
