Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk

Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk
Author: Hugh Rawson
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1995
Genre: Reference
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This is the perennially popular, witty and entertaining guidebook to thousands of linguistic fig leaves and intentionally vague terms that we all say, write and read every day to cushion the real meaning of what is intended--from Victorian examples like "delicate condition" to relatively recent inventions like "massage parlor" and "covert operation".