odd couple
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In “Scavengers,” the mother-and-daughter odd couple are too bumbling to make any headway.
“My mom and I watched ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ and ‘The Odd Couple,’” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
Like every odd couple, Judy and Nick clash repeatedly as they battle to the inevitable happy ending.
From Barron's
For most of the time, the odd couple lived in the village of Bilignin, near the town of Belley in the south east.
Luis and Esteban make for an odd couple in this context, one older and one much younger than practically everybody else around, but they eventually find a small group of dancers who mention a later rave at which the girl, Mar, might appear.
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