Quotes About Euphemism

I want Holly to experience life. To take away the blinders she has so assiduously relied on. I think you're just the type of person to show her what she doesn't know and doesn't want to know. My niece is innocent in so many ways, and there comes a time in a woman's life when innocence is merely a euphemism for ignorance.

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.

Political correctness … is a euphemism for 'that which offends the left.

The words we use to surround death are bizarre. Like we're hiding something.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like Grandpa. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

There's a daughter, but she's not quite right, I believe. Unfortunately she's a bit glaikit." He used the Scots word for mental handicap. It was not a word that many used any more, preferring learning difficulties, the modern euphemism. But there was nothing unkind about glaikit, which survived because the policing of language had not extended to the Scots lexicon.

Diversity of thought" is just a euphemism for "white supremacy".'16

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.

Her Squire, Celena, Ms. Blood Rite, I-kill-anything-that-breaks-formation, is on her way over here to have a word with you. Since Celena isn't real big on conversation, I'm taking that as a euphemism for 'kick your ass.' (Rafael)

The phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is often said to refer to a metallic grid with circular holes in it, set under a pyramid of cannonballs on a ship's deck to keep it stable. When this "brass monkey" got cold enough, the metal contracted and the cannonballs all popped out. In fact, the phrase means exactly what it says; the fake nautical euphemism is an attempt to make its rude humor more acceptable.

Why was "plain" a euphemism for "ugly," when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her - something having to do with who she really was.

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

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

Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

I was feeling low. Low is the depressive's euphemism for despair.

He then 'went off to have a rest', which was often a Soviet euphemism for incapacity through alcohol.

You looked like you wanted to jump his bones right there! Jump his bones? Sadie frowns. What do you mean? ...It's like a pajama party. Except you take off your pajamas. Oh that. Her face clicks with recognition. You call it 'jumping his bones'? Sometimes. I shrug. What an odd phrase. We used to call it sex. Oh. I say, discomfited. Well we do too- Or barney-mugging, she adds.

Somehow it seems more clever to refer to something instead of saying it.