00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862158419 Buklod 20190327155642.0 g||| | || || ta 190327s1995 xx rb |||1 u|eng d 0198692757 (iLib)UPBAG-00033366499 BC-34904 Php982.00 OLC BAG rda eng PE 1449 H548 Holder, R. W. author. A dictionary of euphemisms R.W. Holder. Euphemisms Oxford Oxford University Press 1995. xix, 470 pages 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Originally published: A dictionary of American and British Euphemisms : Bath University Press, 1987. Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xix) and index. There's an art to not saying what you mean, and A Dictionary Of Euphemisms investigates our all too common tendency to prefer vague or roundabout expressions to words which are blunt, precise, and often disagreeably true. Whey else do we say 'bijou', 'house of ill repute', and 'corporate entertainment', when what we really mean 'inconveniently small', 'brothel', and 'bribery'? Let A Dictionary of Euphemisms be your guide to the language of prudery, evasion, and deceit. Filled with thousands of quotations, definitions, derivations, and historical explanations, this dictionary offers compulsive browsing combined with essential reference. English language Euphemism Dictionaries. English language Synonyms and antonyms. English language Terms and phrases. Holder, R. W. Faber dictionary of euphemisms. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PE 1449 H548 Book