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Euphemism is the art of avoiding giving offence. It is possible to minimize the obvious by calling someone cuddly or junoesque when they are actually fat; to disguise the actual truth, extermination becomes the less unpleasant ethnic-cleansing; and large-scale redundancies become restructuring.
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Boomsbury Euphemisms, John Ayto
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- 1993
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- Title
- Boomsbury Euphemisms
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Ayto
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0747512949
- ISBN13
- 9780747512943
- Series
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
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- Euphemism is the art of avoiding giving offence. It is possible to minimize the obvious by calling someone cuddly or junoesque when they are actually fat; to disguise the actual truth, extermination becomes the less unpleasant ethnic-cleansing; and large-scale redundancies become restructuring.