同床异梦
tóng chuáng yì mèng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 同床異夢
Said of people who live or work side by side but secretly want different things. Used for couples who have grown apart and for partners or allies who each have their own agenda.
Nằm chung giường mà mỗi người mơ một giấc mơ: sống hoặc làm việc cạnh nhau nhưng mỗi người theo đuổi một ý riêng. Dùng cho vợ chồng không còn hoà hợp hoặc đối tác, đồng minh mỗi bên một toan tính.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 异/異 = dị, 梦/夢 = mộng; etymology of “đồng sàng dị mộng” = 同床異夢 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “đồng sàng dị mộng” (dong-sang-di-mong). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “同床异梦” mean?
Said of people who live or work side by side but secretly want different things. Used for couples who have grown apart and for partners or allies who each have their own agenda. Literally: same bed, different dreams
Is “同床异梦” formal or informal?
同床异梦 is generally neutral.