The Collaborative International Dictionary
man and wife \man and wife\ n. A man and woman who are married to each other; a married couple.
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A newly married couple
WordNet
n. two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love" [syn: marriage, married couple]
Wikipedia
Man and Wife may refer to:
- Man and Wife (novel), an 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins
- Man and Wife (film), a 1923 American silent film
- Man and Wife, a 2003 novel by Tony Parsons
Man and Wife is a 1923 American silent domestic drama film starring Maurice Costello and a young Norma Shearer. It was directed by John L. McCutcheon, produced by an independent producer and released by second tier Arrow Film Company.
A nitrate print of the film is held at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins’ ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends to detract from their qualities as fiction. The social issue which drives the plot is the state of Scots marriage law; at the time the novel was written, any couple who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before witnesses, or in writing, were regarded in Scotland as being married in law.
Usage examples of "man and wife".
And the gentlemen frightened her, and made her melancholy, and timid of his deserting her, and of her children coming to the gallows, and of its being wicked to be man and wife, and a good deal more of it.
Ninety-two years had passed over their heads, and seventy years they had lived together as man and wife.
Sweet sadness filled the room as man and wife and babe faded like the morning mist, only the music lingering behind to speed her on her way.
They were man and wife, and Joff had killed her father and mocked her with her brother's death.
I dared not bring my bride home to Casterly Rock, so I set her up in a cottage of her own, and for a fortnight we played at being man and wife.