The phrase
"good bedfellows" means when two or more things or people who are very different are surprisingly compatible or work well together.
Full definition
Poor driving skills and fast cars are
as good bedfellows as water and electricity — in other words, the results are often dangerous.
Because flowers and sexuality make
such good bedfellows, flower essences can be used as a powerful remedy to promote sexual exploration and healing.
The two make
good bedfellows for Pasolini and the addition of Willem Dafoe to the triumvirate results in a film full of brains, as well as a good amount of bodily display.
«Our long - standing philosophy has always been that excess financial leverage was not
a good bedfellow with value investing» Richard Pzena
Puritanism and compassion do not make
good bedfellows.
Think about it though... incompatible paramours usually don't make for
good bedfellows.
«Supporters of working dogs and those of show dogs have frequently never been
good bedfellows.
Safety Extreme poverty, mass tourism, copious cheap alcohol and somewhat dubious policing don't make
good bedfellows and you are well advised to exercise more care than usual while sojourning in Sihanoukville.
In the US, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer (via CCH) see themselves as rivals in the tax market, where LexisNexis is less visible but WK's weakness in law suggests that LexisNexis and WK would be
good bedfellows to counter TR / Westlaw.