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100	1		_aHolder, R. W. _9843
245	1	2	_aA Dictionary of euphemisms : _bhow not to say what you mean / _cR.W. Holder.
246	1	4	_aOxford dictionary of euphemisms
250			_a3rd ed.
260			_aOxford ; _bNew York : Oxford University Press, _c2003.
300			_axxii, 501 p. ; _c20 cm.
440		0	_aOxford paperback reference _9844
503			_aThis ed. originally published: 2002.
505			_aCONTENTS; AN EXPLANATION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DICTIONARY OF EUPHEMISMS; THEMATIC INDEX
520			_aNow in paperback, this brand new edition of A Dictionary of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Mean is still as lively a guide to the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery, and deceit as you could wish for. Packed full of the old favourites, such as 'early bath' or 'push up the daisies', as well as euphemisms from modern times, like 'human sacrifice', 'coffee-housing', and 'tuft-hunter'. Definitions include examples from literature and the press, along with historical explanations of origins, and now obsolete euphemisms like 'leaping house', 'nightingale' are signposted as such. And to prove that the use of euphemisms is not just a British speciality, there is widespread coverage of American euphemisms too: 'English' (pertaining to sexual deviance), 'watermelon' (an indication of pregnancy).
650		0	_aEnglish language _xEuphemism _vDictionaries. _9845
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