A Man About A Dog: Euphemisms And Other Examples of Verbal Squeamishness by Nigel Rees
A Man About A Dog: Euphemisms And Other Examples of Verbal Squeamishness
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Nigel Rees
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A Man About A Dog: Euphemisms And Other Examples of Verbal Squeamishness

Nigel Rees

400 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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Quentin Crisp once quipped that "euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."  This leading commentator on the English language has ranged far and wide to collect and comment upon 2,467 examples of euphemistic phrases—those expres...

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