The phrase "affairs with the same" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to relationships or matters that are similar, but it needs additional context to be usable.
Example: "The report discusses various affairs with the same underlying issues that need to be addressed."
Alternatives: "matters of a similar nature" or "issues of the same kind".
It manages affairs with the same heavy-handed approach that the party brings to all things.
TWO middle-aged, unmarried executives have affairs with the same unmarried, 37-year-old female employee.
(Scribners, $18.95). A writer and his wife have affairs with the same woman on their honeymoon.
The movie hinges, predictably, on the formation of a triangle, although it's not a typical one: husband and wife unknowingly start affairs with the same man.
And a simpler America, where we didn't read other people's e-mails, so we didn't know which four-star generals were having affairs with the same women".
(Scribners, $18.95). A writer and his wife have affairs with the same woman on their European honeymoon; Hemingway's last unpublished novel.
Soon afterward, it became known that Mr. Godbee had also had an affair with the same female officer as Mr. Evans had.
Unhappily, he soon figures out that Professor Yang — who has been murmuring half-lucid endearments to a young woman with nipples "like coffee candy" — has been having an affair with the same girl.
The latest revelations will raise further questions about whether the FA has treated the affair with the same seriousness as it would have done had it involved the men's national team.
I'm left regarding the whole affair with the same affection that I might feel for a cat that's sicked up a hairball made of plastic and silicon on my front-room carpet.
However, a surprising turn of events does intrude: first Elizabeth, then Betsy, will conduct an affair with the same married man, the almost offensively healthy, successful and confident Edmund.
