notch on one's bedpost

From the practice of keeping track of the number of one's sexual liaisons by carving notches into the post of one's bed.

• "He was a notch on her bedpost, a stepping stone on her quest for stardom."
• "She'd confused Sam's attentions with real feelings, and now she was just another notch on his bedpost."
• "Bad enough to think he'd wanted me as just another notch on his bedpost, but to think he'd tried to seduce me for cold-blooded political purposes was unbearable."
• "[…] He wasn't a notch on her bedpost. They were in love, for crying out loud."

• notch in one's belt
• notch on one's belt
• bedfellow
• bedmate
• fuck
• hookup
• lover
• paramour
• mate
• root
• sex partner
• sexual partner

• notch count