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marriage of convenience

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1. marriage of convenience - Noun

2. marriage of convenience - Phrase

Meaning

a marriage for expediency rather than love

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Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. Haruki Murakami

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. Mignon McLaughlin

According to the upper class mores of the day it was a marriage of convenience, but endured harmoniously for some 30 years. Source: Internet

A marriage of convenience is one that is devoid of normal reasons to marry. Source: Internet

Analyzing Thompson’s comments, opined that the Warriors’ relationship with Russell was “always a marriage of convenience to some extent.” Source: Internet

In Europe, as the”big three” marriage of convenience crumbled, competing world forces and ideologies once more stood off from one another. Source: Internet

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