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Meanings of marriage of convenience in English

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Usage of marriage of convenience in English
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Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.
Blind willow, sleeping woman
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My proposition is, in its truest and strictest sense, a marriage of convenience.
The Window-Gazer
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A marriage of convenience in the city is not so uncommon.
A change in altitude
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This was supposed to be a marriage of convenience, nothing more.
The Guardian
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Call it a marriage of convenience if you feel that way!
Charles Rex
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How long the marriage of convenience lasts is a matter of speculation in Sanaa.
Reuters
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But can a marriage of convenience survive for five years?
The Guardian
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It was, as you have said, a marriage of convenience.
Beautiful assassin
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The affair, of course, had been a marriage of convenience.
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green
10
But the relationship is more a marriage of convenience than a true friendship, analysts say.
Reuters
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Secondly, Gwendolyn and Trevor Briggs (Michael Benjamin Washington) enter a marriage of convenience.
The South African
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She claimed it was a marriage of convenience, although I understand he was very good-looking.
Changeless
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Such state capitalism looks like a marriage of convenience.
Reuters
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Two years on, the marriage of convenience is over.
News.com.au
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A simple marriage of convenience, as we say here.
The Black Wolf's Breed / A Story of France in the Old World and ...
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But instead, his marriage of convenience with the Metro developed into a passionate love affair.
Metro 2034