Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 17. The Noun phrase today is the seven-year
itch. Okay. Let's take a look at the note. This noun phrase refers to idea that someone, especially a man, may start
to get bored with his wife, and may start to long for sexual relations with other
women. So that's what it means today. If you hear it, but let's continue The
7-year itch originally had a different meaning. It referred to a real skin condition that was common
among soldiers and actually lasted for seven years. So that's when the term
first became famous. It really was about a real skin condition that mostly
soldiers got and it didn't it really didn't go away for about seven years. So
that's why it was called the 7-year itch. All right. Let's continue. The term grew
in popularity to have its modern meaning or its modern-day meaning, after the film of the
same name came out in 1955 starring Marilyn Monroe. Yes. So the name of the movie was
the 7-year itch, and it was a story about a married man who started having this. He
started getting bored with his married life and started looking around or
desiring to have a relationship with other women. So that's why it ended up
with the meaning that it has today. It was from this very famous movie. Let's
continue. Yeah. Oh well that's another thing too. If we say to itch each for
something is actually a phrase. So if you're itching for something, it means
you feel like it or you're in the mood for it and just like when you really are
itchy, sometimes you're not satisfied you can't be content until you actually
scratch. So when you have an itch for something, you have to satisfy it. Or
otherwise you feel uncomfortable. So that's the idea of why they probably
gave it that meaning of the 7-year itch. Again let's continue
here. This movie contains the famous Marilyn Monroe scene of her dress
blowing up in the air while standing over a New York subway grating. Yeah. I
know New York City pretty well, and I've been there and when those trains, those
Subway cars go by fast and you are over the metal grating , the air blows right
up in the air and it could blow up suddenly, out of nowhere. So they, they
made fun of that idea in the movie. And of course, they have a scene where she's
standing over the grading and the same thing happens. Now in the movie, the old
movie with Marilyn Monroe actually they made Marilyn Monroe, look
like she enjoyed that too much. It's like Oh, oh (sounds of pleasure) kind of like that, trying to hold her
dress down. But you know in real life, if that went by and you see a woman walking over the grating,
she's Ah, ah ( sounds of panic) and like holding it down. So it's not really like it was in the movie. In the movie
they almost made Marilyn Monroe almost you know, look like she was enjoying the air blowing her
dress up in the air. So that's not really the way it would
probably be. In real life. All right. Let's continue here.
Let's give one example of the way we would actually use this as a noun phrase.
This is an a/b part and A starts. Did you see the way MR. Johnson was staring at
the new sexy reception girl ? And B might say, isn't he a married man ? And A might
say, yes , but who knows ? Maybe he's starting to have a seven-yeah itch. So of
course , that's what it means. Maybe he's been married for a while. Of course, it
does not have to be exactly seven years. But if it was somewhere in that area.We
might say that basically. Yeah. So anyway, I hope you got it. Enjoyed it. Thank you for your
time. Bye-bye.