eternal triangle

noun

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

Idioms and Phrases

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

It is a mistake, too, to think that their novels and plays are immoral or hinge always on the eternal triangle.

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And diversion, not to say, drama, came—the eternal triangle.

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

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Yes, it was the eternal triangle, Only they didn't call it that then.

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