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How Not to Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms (3rd edition)

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This re-named edition of "A Dictionary of Euphemisms" is full of old favourites, such as "early bath" or "push up the daisies", as well as euphemisms from modern times, like "human sacrifice" and "coffee-housing". Definitions include examples from real authors, along with historical explanations of origins, and now obsolete euphemisms like "leaping house", "nightingale" are signposted as such. To prove that the use of euphemisms is not just a British speciality, there is widespread coverage of American euphemisms too: ...

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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