marriage of convenience
Speech parts
1. marriage of convenience - Noun
2. marriage of convenience - Phrase
Meaning
a marriage for expediency rather than love
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Examples
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
According to the upper class mores of the day it was a marriage of convenience, but endured harmoniously for some 30 years.
A marriage of convenience is one that is devoid of normal reasons to marry.
Analyzing Thompson’s comments, opined that the Warriors’ relationship with Russell was “always a marriage of convenience to some extent.”
In Europe, as the”big three” marriage of convenience crumbled, competing world forces and ideologies once more stood off from one another.