strange bedfellows
An unusual combination or political alliance.
The USA and the USSR were strange bedfellows. They were united only in their opposition to Hitler and Fascism.
strange
/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
adj 5verb 3noun 2name 2
Collocations
5(adj.)
VERBS
appear, be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound, taste
consider sth, find sth, regard sth as, think sth
Many people find it strange that she never checks her phone.
ADV
extremely, really, very
a bit, fairly, a little, pretty, quite, rather, somewhat
My new coworker seems rather strange, so I'm not sure what to think of her yet.
PREP
to
The customs in that country seemed strange to me at first.
Definitions
adj
1
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
2
Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
[…] here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
3
Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
When AIDS and Herpes hit the street Talib stopped fucking with strange pussy and stray pussy. Bitches had a ways to go to match Malikah in bed anyway. With her there was that extra element of real love that heightened sex […]
Arnett might have come to Boston to eat baked beans, get some strange ass, or stick up the First New England Trust, the motive mattered little to him—whatever the boss wanted to do was jake-okay by him. Besides, being on overtime for ...
4
Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
5
Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
verb
1
To alienate; to estrange.
2
To be estranged or alienated.
3
To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
[I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]
noun
1
Sex outside of one's current relationship.
It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males seeking some strange.
All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.”
2
A strange quark.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
strange bird
An unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.
Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid
make strange
To behave in a shy, uncommunicative, resistant manner when encountering an unfamiliar person or situation.
Come to Granny. You must surely be making strange, with all these foreign faces huffing and puffing around you, you poor little precious diddledums.
Example Bank
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He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
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I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
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Sated at length, ere long I might perceave / Strange alteration in me, to degree / Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech / Wanted not long, though to this shape retain’d.
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[I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Fa
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It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males see
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All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.”
WiktionaryUsage Notes
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In some senses, strange is marked as slang, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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