- unpleasant. Some
euphemisms are
intended to amuse,
while others use bland,
inoffensive terms for
concepts that the user
wishes to downplay.
Euphemisms may be used...
- 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...
- In
American slang,
baseball metaphors for **** are
often used as
euphemisms for the
degree of
physical intimacy achieved in ****ual
encounters or relationships...
- 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...
-
translated as "****head". A
common euphemism is 七 cat1 (seven),
which only
differs in the tone.
Other euphemisms include 刷 caat3 (to brush) and 賊 caak6...
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December 25, 2022.
Retrieved June 15, 2013.
Bertelsmann did not
resort to
euphemism this w**** when it
announced the end of the
Brockhaus encyclopedia brand...
-
Chengyu (traditional Chinese: 成語;
simplified Chinese: 成语; pinyin: chéngyǔ; trans. "set phrase") are a type of
traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions...
-
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...
- 20th
century by the
satirical magazine Private Eye, as one of its many
euphemisms and in-jokes. Rose Wild
reported in May 2016, however, that she could...
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scare quotes, to mock or
criticise the
Russian intervention. The use of
euphemisms to
describe military activities was
common in the
Soviet Union and in...
