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What is [an uneasy fit] means?
 

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What does "an uneasy fit" mean?
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In what type of context we can use it? Can you please give us some examples? Mike.
 

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Here are a few examples quoted by the Fraze.It website.

We could also ask punkt where he/she encountered the phrase.
 

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Here are a few examples quoted by the Fraze.It website.

We could also ask punkt where he/she encountered the phrase.

Okay. I got it. Mike said that "an uneasy fit" refers to only two things. Is it really only for two things? Can't we use it when things more than two don't fit to one another or together well?
 

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In what type of context we can use it? Can you please give us some examples? Mike.

Examples: Believing in big government and advocating lower taxes is an uneasy fit.
Joe's position about the importance of the environment is an uneasy fit with his collection of gas-guzzling cars.
 

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Okay. I got it. Mike said that "an uneasy fit" refers to only two things. Is it really only for two things? Can't we use it when things more than two don't fit to one another or together well?

I usually hear it involving 2 things/ideas. I can't say that more than two is impossible.
 
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