- A
euphemism (/ˈjuːfəmɪzəm/ YOO-fə-miz-əm) is an
innocuous word or
expression used in
place of one that is
deemed offensive or
suggests something unpleasant...
- Hansard, the full
record of debates,
printed "F*** them", but even this
euphemism was
deprecated by the Speaker,
George Thomas.
During the
George W. Bush...
- In
American slang,
baseball metaphors for **** are
often used as
euphemisms for the
degree of
physical intimacy achieved in ****ual
encounters or relationships...
-
Victorian morality is a
distillation of the
moral views of the
middle class in 19th-century Britain, the
Victorian era.
Victorian values emerged in all...
- death. Most of them are idioms. The "Dead
Parrot sketch"
contains several euphemisms for
death ("is no more", "has
ceased to be", "bereft of life, it rests...
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codification of its ideology. Abbeförderung ('dispatching', 'removal') –
euphemism for killing. abgeräumt ('cleared away') –
slang expression for "murdered"...
- the free dictionary. Sam Hill is an
American English slang phrase, a
euphemism or
minced oath for "the devil" or "****"
personified (as in, "What in...
-
euphemism for
Irish republicanism A
euphemism for
Confederate secession during the
American Civil War A
euphemism for
Loyalism in
Ireland A
euphemism...
- (sometimes
criminal operation or
illegal surgery) was a
widely understood euphemism for
induced abortion used in the 19th and 20th
centuries in Anglophone...
-
triumph of
Francisco Franco,
filete imperial ("imperial beef")
became a
euphemism for
filete ruso ("Russian beef"), "ensaladilla nacional" ("national salad")...
