made for each other

Idioms  

1. Also, made for one another. Perfectly suited, as in Pat and Peter were just made for each other, or, as Samuel Richardson put it in Clarissa (1751): “Her features are all harmony, and made for one another.” The use of made for in the sense of “fitted for” dates from the late 1100s.

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Example Sentences

"We saw that Penn Engineering's propulsion system and our tiny electronic computers were just made for each other," says Blaauw.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

As former Rangers midfielder Scott Arfield put it, the Ibrox club and the Europa League seem to be made for each other.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025

The two of them were, were, I mean, just almost made for each other.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2024

I, too, can be persuaded by the intoxicating ways in which chocolate and olive oil somehow seem made for each other.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2022

Those two are made for each other, Moss thought.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro