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Thread: Not a euphemism!
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HenryT
Canadian Anglican
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snowshoeing to the compost pile
It's simple- a phrase that you've done, seen, or heard of that sounds like a euphemism. No need to explain what it might be a euphemism for - unless you want to!
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"Perhaps an invincible attachment to the dearest rights of man may, in these refined, enlightened days, be deemed old-fashioned" P. Henry, 1788
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jacobsen
seeker
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Most of the likely phrases I know are euphemisms, so it's hard to know how to play. Why oh why was I educated in a convent?
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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pimple
Ship's Irruption
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eliminating the point source
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Wring out the mop.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Or 'He punts from the wrong end'.
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Lymasa
Shipmate
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If I can stretch the topic a bit, my daughter gave me a bad moment by talking about how big coke was on her college campus. I felt better, though foolish, once I realized that she was talking about the cola and not the street drug of choice.
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I wish I were a jellyfish
That cannot fall down stairs. . .
GK Chesterton
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Or 'He punts from the wrong end'.
![[Smile]](smile.gif) though I don't use that as I am usually referring to my Oxford educated husband.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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My husband now tells me that it is actually used as a euphemism, in Oxford anyway.
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