Idiom
friendship with benefits
Meaning
A platonic friendship where the partners engage in sexual activities, but do not consider themselves a couple.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“They are in a friendship with benefits and keep things casual.”
“He worried that starting a friendship with benefits would eventually ruin their long-term platonic connection.”
“While they initially agreed to a friendship with benefits, the emotional complexity of their arrangement soon made it impossible to maintain a strictly casual boundary.”
Examples
simple
“They are in a friendship with benefits and keep things casual.”
contextual
“He worried that starting a friendship with benefits would eventually ruin their long-term platonic connection.”
complex
“While they initially agreed to a friendship with benefits, the emotional complexity of their arrangement soon made it impossible to maintain a strictly casual boundary.”
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