But the amorous avian appears to have mistaken a nurse's attention for something a little more intimate and has set about trying to woo his human companion.

Our manager is having an affair with his secretary and was seen one day by the cleaning woman.

An affair gives you the chance to start over.

With all this ambiguity, you may be thinking it's safer just to avoid colour, but that' s not the case.

She even unwittingly replicated The Republican' s rationale for pronouncing Ms. as "mizz, " since she had noticed this ambiguous spoken form when she was a child growing up in St. Louis.