Justice and beauty are not even kissing cousins, and yet here they are forcibly jostling together in our hearts.

The steaks, they say, are kissing cousins to white truffles, Beluga caviar, precious wine, even great art.

But now fewer than five varieties predominate for each crop and even these are 'kissing cousins' of one another, genetically almost identical.

Now, adversity and opportunity are kissing cousins, I say.

Second cousins weren't much more than kissing cousins, was what Aunt Gloria had said once.

But only because Romulans and Vulcans are 'kissing cousins,' so to speak.

"We thought we were kissing cousins for a moment there," Mr. Durning said.

Both are kissing cousins, quick-fix variants of the age-old desire to pump up the economy," he said.

And there's a little baby boy and girl,we're only kissing cousins it's got.

Comets are kissing cousins to asteroids.