Politics makes strange bedfellows

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1. Political interests can bring together people who otherwise have little in common. This saying is adapted from a line in the play The Tempest, by William Shakespeare: “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” It is spoken by a man who has been shipwrecked and finds himself seeking shelter beside a sleeping monster.

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Politics makes strange bedfellows

Politics makes strange bedfellows out of Ellen Page and Kate Mara in the 2017 indie romance “My Days of Mercy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019