eternal triangle
Britishnoun
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an emotional relationship in which there are conflicts involving a man and two women or a woman and two men
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A relationship involving three lovers, such as two women involved with one man or two men with one woman. For example, The plot of the murder mystery revolved around the eternal triangle of a husband, wife, and another woman. [c. 1900]
Example Sentences
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It surely is in this fresh angle on the eternal triangle.
From Time • May 22, 2010
History does not show a more foursquare example of the eternal triangle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Britain's Peter Shaffer draws a cunning eternal triangle with God at the apex, music in the air and Byzantine intrigue everywhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
An outspoken, thoughtful appeal to solve the eternal triangle of God, Man and the Devil through the instruments of Science now available and through new standards of conduct.
From Time Magazine Archive
And diversion, not to say, drama, came—the eternal triangle.
From Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author by Blades, Leslie Burton
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