eternal triangle

British  

noun

1. an emotional relationship in which there are conflicts involving a man and two women or a woman and two men

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eternal triangle Idioms  

1. 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]

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Example Sentences

It surely is in this fresh angle on the eternal triangle.

From Time • May 22, 2010

He has written three psychodramas that are, in a way that no author of an adulterous farce could imagine, plays about the eternal triangle.

From Time Magazine Archive

British Character Actress Lally Bowers is featured in a Victorian version of the eternal triangle.

From Time Magazine Archive

This latest of popular Novelist Powell's brittle, flashy novels turns the eternal triangle into a polygon in 334 pages.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Certainly, three characters of two sexes form the eternal triangle, any way you arrange them; isn't that perfectly simple?"

From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold