seven year itch

[sev-en-yeer] Origin

seven-year itch

[sev-en-yeer]
noun
2.
the temptation to have an affair, held to become a hazard in the seventh year of marriage.

Origin:
1895–1900, Americanism
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Seven year itch is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

seven-year itch
1899, Amer.Eng., some sort of skin condition (sometimes identified with poison ivy infection) that either lasts seven years or returns every seven years. Jocular use for "urge to stray from marital fidelity" is attested from 1952, as the title of the Broadway play (made into a film, 1955) by George Axelrod
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(1922-2003), in which the lead male character reads an article describing the high number of men have extra-marital affairs after seven years of marriage.
COLLAPSE
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seven-year itch definition


  1. n.
    a real or imagined longing for other women in a man's seventh year of marriage. : Looks like Jack has the seven-year itch.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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