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Euphemism or hard reality, industry talks about 'graceful exits'.(On the Road)(Mortgage Bankers Association)(Scott Holzmeister from Wells Fargo Home ... news): An article from: Mortgage Banking


Euphemism or hard reality, industry talks about ‘graceful exits’.(On the Road)(Mortgage Bankers Association)(Scott Holzmeister from Wells Fargo Home … news): An article from: Mortgage Banking


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This digital document is an article from Mortgage Banking, published by Mortgage Bankers Association of America on April 1, 2010. The length of the article is 1167 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Euphemism or hard r…

A Dictionary of Euphemisms


A Dictionary of Euphemisms


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This thoroughly updated paperback marks 20 years of R. W. Holder’s popular and successful dictionary of euphemisms, offering a delightful collection of jocular and evasive expressions for sex, death, murder, crime, prison, and much more. Here are almost five thousand euphemistic expressions listed in alphabetical order, ranging from well-known favorites to less amusing expressions from the bureaucratic and military world. For each word or expression, Holder includes examples from real authors, along with entertaining explanations of the word’s origins and meaning. New to this edition are over 250 new entries and fourteen introductory articles on major themes in euphemistic language, such as business, sex, death, and the human body. The book includes an extensive thematic index which groups words together under topics such as Age, Bankruptcy, Bribery, Copulation, Funerals, Killing and Suicide, Low Intelligence, Politics, and Warfare. From "five-fingered discount" to "surgical strike," here is a wonderful collection of colorful words and phrases that allow us to avoid life’s unpleasantness, as well as add spice and humor to our everyday speech.

How Not to Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms


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This thoroughly updated new edition of How Not to Say What You Mean celebrates 20 years of R. W. Holder’s popular and successful dictionary of euphemisms, offering a delightful collection of jocular and evasive expressions for sex, death, murder, crime, prison, and much more. Here are almost five thousand euphemistic expressions listed in alphabetical order, ranging from well-known favorites such as "push up the daisies," "fly-by-night," "red light district," "take to the cleaners," "get lucky," and "five-fingered discount," to less amusing expressions from the bureaucratic and military world such as "restructuring," "collateral damage," and "extrajudicial killing." For each word or expression, Holder includes examples from real authors, along with entertaining explanations of the words origins and meaning. Thus we learn that "bite the bullet" (to make a difficult decision) comes from the fact that soldiers, being flogged, were once given a bullet to bite down on, and "Stool Pigeon" (an informant) comes from the practice of tying a pigeon to a stool to lure other pigeons to capture. New to this edition are over 250 new entries and fourteen introductory articles on major themes in euphemistic language, such as business, sex, death, and the human body. The book includes an extensive thematic index which groups words together under topics such as Age, Bankruptcy, Bribery, Copulation, Sexual Variations, Drunkenness, Erections and Orgasms, Farting, Funerals, Killing and Suicide, Low Intelligence, Politics, Prison, and Warfare. From "suck the monkey" to "surgical strike," here is a wonderful collection of colorful words that allow us to avoid life’s unpleasantries as we add spice and humor to our everyday speech. "A must for tiptoeing around the truth. It is also rollicking reading for those who love words and the not always forthright uses to which they are put." –Chicago Sun-Times

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