What's the meaning of the phrase 'Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows'?
From Shakespeare's The Tempest, 1610:
Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to
creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past.
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What’s the origin of the phrase ‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows’?
From Shakespeare’s The Tempest, 1610:
Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past.
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