cradle robbers
Date much younger
Cradle robbers are people who date or pursue romantic partners much younger than themselves.
The phrase evokes someone reaching into a cradle to snatch an infant—an exaggeration suggesting the age gap is unseemly: Those two? She's a cradle robber—he just turned twenty-one.
The singular cradle robber is more common.
Related: robbing the cradle.
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- relationshipConnection between entities
- age of consentMinimum years for lawful agreement
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