| It was like a euphemism for a dirty word, he'd rather people'd just said the word than try to make it seem nicer. |
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| After kissing the subject, he just tapers off, equivocates, engages in euphemism. |
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| Large bureaucracies seem to inherently foster a culture that favours circumlocution, jargon and euphemism. |
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| Each drawn shoe is accompanied by a blunt euphemism from the history of conflict. |
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| Reform is a polite euphemism for forcing banks to close out bad loans, enforce bankruptcy, and require layoffs of excess workers. |
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| The danger is of subsiding into a world of flavourless, colourless euphemism, leaving behind the robustness of good English. |
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| By the use of that euphemism it is assumed you seek to address those lukewarm, apathetic or lapsed individuals who think as you do. |
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| A military euphemism for unplanned casualties, such as UN officials or Afghan refugees. |
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| New Russian is a euphemism for black-market pimp, smuggler, gangster, any tough young man with capitalist cash, and there are lots of them. |
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| Civic action is a euphemism for psy-war operations, propaganda and intelligence gathering. |
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| That's his euphemism for the paunch so characteristic of many middle-aged, desk-bound executives. |
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| This euphemism is not a moral or legal excuse to justify the harm caused to civilian populations. |
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| Bycatch is the euphemism for the unwanted portion of the catch thrown overboard by fishers. |
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| Another week, another botched killing under the legal euphemism of capital punishment. |
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| If you're a few years older, you'll resent the choking paternalistic atmosphere of vapid gee-whiz kiddie entertainment, euphemism, and fake-friendly bullying. |
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| It is a nice sort of euphemism, but it threatens to put the nail in the coffin on tourism in our region. |
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| Babylon could be a euphemism for Rome or it could just be a metaphor for imagined exile. |
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| Both define politics not as the art of the possible but as a moral crusade in which compromise is a cosy euphemism for lack of principle. |
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| In this first edition of the year it is not a euphemism to sincerely hope that it has got off to a good start for each one of you. |
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| I never heard a shoeblack called a boot-finisher before, but I think the euphemism was allowable in a young lady who wishes to exalt the commercial status of her intended. |
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| When faced with the choice between calling a spade a spade and cloying euphemism, you know which the bosses will choose. |
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| Providing for reproductive health is not a euphemism for abortion services. |
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| It's a euphemism for the Tarot major arcana, based on the myth that the Egyptian god Thoth's wisdom was written down in the eponymous book, for magicians to discover. |
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| Do not, however, expect us to help subvert this concept and turn it into something it is not: a euphemism for blocking entry. |
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| Harijan is a euphemism for the low castes and untouchables and means people of god. |
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| Imagine that — a euphemism replaced by a dysphemism. |
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| Kick the bucket: the fine line between euphemism and plain old slang. |
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| It has become, accordingly, a ruthlessly spic-and-span euphemism for downsizing the domestic industrial workforce, for pricing labor according to its cheapest foreign equivalent. |
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| Was the water gun a euphemism for a brute negotiating tactic? |
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| It'll be a slow, steady climb towards Blubberhouses, a Category 4 climb just shy of 50km in, which sounds like a local euphemism for anyone who doesn't finish the Tour. |
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| The made in Canada plan right here in Ottawa was a euphemism for taking Canada out of the Kyoto treaty, something that has been the project of the Prime Minister's for a long time. |
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| This has been understandable, but this, too, is a euphemism. |
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| Saying that cooking lessons are all the rage is really a euphemism. |
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| This euphemism is Enrico's way of evoking his career as a mainstream French 'variété' singer in the '80s and '90s, a period when he admits he completely lost his way. |
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| The Germanic word presumably originally meant 'white person', perhaps as a euphemism. |
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| The term green season is also sometimes used as a euphemism by tourist authorities. |
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| If that's a euphemism for snotters and spittle down your back, pish and clouds of hash, then, yes, a bus is life's big tapestry. |
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| Ethnic cleansing is a poor euphemism for forms of culturcide, ethnocide, ghettoization, displacement of people to reservations, and forced removal of populations. |
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| Put simply, nosebleed in mangadom is a comical euphemism for an erection. |
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| Look at 21st-century Britons, tongue-tied in conversation, groping for some PC euphemism in what was once the most iconically free-spoken country on earth. |
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