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eternal triangle

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(the) eternal triangle
a sexual or emotional relationship involving two women and one man or two men and one woman. (*Typically, a couple [man and woman] and another man or woman.) Henry can't choose between his wife and his mistress. It's the eternal triangle. I'm surprised Jane doesn't get tired of the eternal triangle. She goes out with Peter at the weekend and Jim during the week.
See also: eternal


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After he drove back from Poland after Christmas 2007, he and Mrs Rodgers met at his home "against a background of the emotional and conflicting demands of the eternal triangle of a wife and another woman".
For those who view politics as essentially a psycho-drama, and the story of New Labour as an eternal triangle involving its three prime movers, there is probably something in this.
THIS is a case of the eternal triangle," declared prosecuting counsel at Croydon, Surrey, to-day, when Frank Hutchinson, a 33 years old glass blower, living at Birk Road.
 
 
 
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