Safire learned that the use of the term "seven-year itch" for sexual unrest after seven years' of marriage was an invention of playwright George Axelrod.
'You're worse than the seven years' itch." And poet Carl Sandburg, in his 1936 'The People, Yes,' caught the cadence of the American dialect by using the phrase in what seems to be a physical-annoyance sense: 'May you have the sevenyear itch,' was answered, 'I hope your wife eats crackers in bed.'" But Mr. If we have had the seven-years' itch,' we have not seen the seventeen-year locust yet in Concord." Other early uses: " 'Dialect Notes' noted in a 1907 New Hampshire usage. Henry David Thoreau wrote, in 1854: "These may be but the spring months in the life of the race.
7 YEAR ITCH PART 1 SKIN
The expression "seven-year itch," in various forms, referring to a skin malady is old. This phrase was researched by William Safire and he gives the details in "Watching My Language: Adventures in the Word Trade" (Random House, New York, 1997). I don't think the "poison ivy itch" part is correct but otherwise Mr. Word and phrase hunters haven't been able to turn up any earlier use of the words in a sexual context, although seven-year itch had been used to describe a poison ivy itch that supposedly recurred once every seven years." From the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997). SEVEN-YEAR ITCH - SEVEN-YEAR ITCH - "Used to describe a husband's or wife's urge to stray from his or her mate after seven years of marriage, this expression appears to have been invented by American playwright George Axelrod in his play 'The Seven Year Itch' and further popularized by the film version starring Marilyn Monroe.
7 YEAR ITCH PART 1 MOVIE
Then it was used for a play and movie title with a sexual connotation.
: Could someone please enlighten me as to how/when/where/why the SEVEN YEAR ITCH originated? In Reply to: Seven Year Itch posted by Ameen Nawab on September 08, 2003
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