同床异梦 (同床異夢)
tóng chuáng yì mèng
Pinyin

Definition

同床异梦 (同床異夢)
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tóng chuáng yì mèng
  1. lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas
  2. strange bedfellows
  3. marital dissension

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

不同
bù tóng
  1. 1 different
  2. 2 distinct
  3. 3 not the same
  4. 4 not alike
同
tóng
  1. 1 (used in given names)
  2. 2 variant: 同 tóng
同事
tóng shì
  1. 1 colleague
  2. 2 co-worker
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 classifier: 位 wèi
同学
tóng xué
  1. 1 to study at the same school
  2. 2 fellow student
  3. 3 classmate
  4. 4 classifier: 位 wèi
  5. 5 classifier: 个 gè
同时
tóng shí
  1. 1 at the same time
  2. 2 simultaneously

Idioms (20)

一掬同情之泪
yī jū tóng qíng zhī lèi
  1. 1 to shed tears of sympathy (idiom)
一视同仁
yī shì tóng rén
  1. 1 to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people
三马同槽
sān mǎ tóng cáo
  1. 1 three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿|司马懿[Sī mǎ Yì] and his two sons); conspirators under the same roof
不可同日而语
bù kě tóng rì ér yǔ
  1. 1 lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath
  2. 2 incomparable
不同凡响
bù tóng fán xiǎng
  1. 1 lit. not a common chord (idiom); outstanding
  2. 2 brilliant
  3. 3 out of the common run