同床异梦 — Chinese idiom
同床异梦
tóng chuáng yì mèng
Traditional: 同床異夢
Meaning
- lit. to share the same bed with different dreams ; ostensible partners with different agendas
- strange bedfellows
- marital dissension
Character by character
- 同tóngsame, similar; together with, alike
- 床chuángbed, couch; framework, chassis
- 异yìdifferent, strange, unusual; foreign; surprising
- 梦mèngdream
Idioms sharing a character
- 一视同仁 yī shì tóng rén
- 不同凡响 bù tóng fán xiǎng
- 不敢苟同 bù gǎn gǒu tóng
- 不约而同 bù yuē ér tóng
- 公诸同好 gōng zhū tóng hào
- 同仇敌忾 tóng chóu dí kài
- 同室操戈 tóng shì cāo gē
- 同心协力 tóng xīn xié lì
- 同心同德 tóng xīn tóng dé
- 同日而语 tóng rì ér yǔ
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