share someone's affections
- share someone's affections
to have an open adulterous relationship
Not just talking about the common love, a parent will have for siblings:
The mistress even suggested that his wife should contemporaneously share his affections. (Daily Telegraph, 1979)
To share someone's bed is to copulate with someone, the phrase not being used of married couples. An assumption is made that such proximity outside marriage will always overcome chastity of disinclination:
I say you share his bed — puta. (Deighton, 1981 — puta means prostitute in Spanish and Italian)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms.
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