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How Not to Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms

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From "suck the monkey" to "surgical strike," here is a wonderful collection of colorful words that allow us to avoid life's unpleasantries as we add spice and humor to our everyday speech. New to this edition are over 250 new entries and fourteen introductory articles on major themes in euphemistic language, such as business, sex, death, and the human body. The book includes an extensive thematic index which groups words together under topics such as Age, Bankruptcy, Bribery, Copulation, Sexual Variations, Drunkenness, ...

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How Not to Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms 2007, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199208395

4th edition

Hardcover

How Not to Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms 2003, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198604020

3rd edition

Hardcover