同床异梦 — Chinese idiom

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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