have an affair (with someone)

have an affair (with someone)
have an affair (with someone)
to have a love affair with someone. •

When I was 20, I had an affair with a rock star, and really made a fool of myself.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • play around (with someone) — 1. in. to aste time; to waste someone’s time. □ Stop playing around and get to work. □ Don’t play around with me! 2. in. to flirt or have an affair with someone. □ Those two have been playing around for months. □ …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

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  • affair — [[t]əfe͟ə(r)[/t]] ♦♦ affairs 1) N SING: the N If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair. The government has mishandled the whole affair... The affair began when… …   English dictionary

  • sleep with — {v. phr.} To have a sexual affair with someone; have sex; copulate. * /It has been rumored in the office that the boss sleeps with all the girls he hires./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

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