| 同床异梦 | 
tóng chuáng yì mèng | 
lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas / strange bedfellows / marital dissension | 
| 同 | 
tóng | 
like / same / similar / together / alike / with | 
| 同 | 
tòng | 
used in 胡同 | 
| 同 | 
tòng | 
used in 胡同 | 
|  床 | 
chuáng | 
bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:张) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis / classifier for blankets, quilts etc | 
|  床 | 
chuáng | 
variant of 床 | 
|   异 | 
yì | 
different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate | 
|    梦 | 
mèng | 
dream (CL:场,个) / (bound form) to dream |