But what does a woman understand of these great affairs?

"Plato was born among great affairs, and has lived with them ever since."

I haven't been mixed up with great or scandalous affairs.

I am but a simple military man, and do not understand these great affairs of state.

But the work goes well, which is the great affair.

You make a great affair of my preparing a will.

She could hardly have the first great affair of her life without getting emotionally involved.

Clearly his mind was completely occupied with great affairs of state.

And, for a week there, they had one of the great affairs of the century.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.