Quotes About Euphemism

I'm sure I don't have to tell a German what a "special operation" amounts to. You Germans use this euphemism too, don't you? When you want to kill thousands of people and pretend that it's something sanitary.

For sex scenes, I just write about someone eating a sandwich and replace "ham & cheese hoagie" with "perfect breasts."

Amongst men of the Cabuliwallah's class, however, it is well known that the words father-in-law's house have a double meaning. It is a euphemism for jail, the place where we are well cared for, at no expense to ourselves. In this sense would the sturdy pedlar take my daughter's question. 'Oh,' he would say, shaking his fist at an invisible policeman, 'I will thrash my father-in-law!

Dottie, spray her hair some more so that it can't fall forward. It's hiding her, um, profile." This was Jonathan the director's euphemism for cleavage, which always seemed to get more close-ups than the rest of her.

Even my dick was relaxing, and had fallen from the upright to the horizontal.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

Crazy is often a euphemism for unbearable suffering.

Ethnic' in this context is yet another euphemism. What we are seeing in Iraq is religious cleansing. The original usage of 'ethnic cleansing' in the former Yugoslavia is also arguably a euphemism for religious cleansing, involving Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosnians.6 I

I did 'not' plan... last night. And now he was sincere. She could tell by the falter. He was almost bemused. And the way he said last night made the words seem like a euphemism for splendor. They encompassed a world of sensations and memories, those words. It was one of the most terrifying, exhilarating conversations she'd ever had.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

We've reached a point in American history when death has become almost the last obscenity. Have you noticed how many of us refuse to say 'he or she died'? We're far more likely to say 'she passed away,' as though death were a sterile process of modest preparation, followed by shrink-wrapping, then rapid transit—where? Well, elsewhere. In short, it's the single thing we're loath to discuss in public.

She hated that many of her colleagues hid behind the title "Planned Parenthood." That was a euphemism. "It irks my very soul and all that is Irish in me to acquiesce to the appeasement group that is so prevalent in our beloved organization," she wrote.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

His penis swelled in his pants to the extent that it felt like a hamster that had died and entered rigor mortis.

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

I believe the switch from 'lady' to 'woman' was part of the women's movement. 'Lady' was a euphemism for 'woman,' and that was one reason that we wanted to move away from it.

No, thank you, it's nothing serious." A headache that was not serious was the usual euphemism for a menstrual period, and everyone accepted this without further comment.

meeting" is often the euphemism we use for unproductive collaboration.

Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.

had learned how to use her breasts to get exactly what she wanted from men, hence the nickname "Nightingale," a euphemism for prostitutes, all of whom knew how to use their bosoms. This was

Gratitude' is a euphemism for resentment. Resentment from most people I do not mind—but from pretty little girls it is distasteful to me.