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Перевод: euphemism

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эвфемизм

Тезаурус:

1. Both had clearly spent the morning raiding the dictionary of euphemism.
2. Should innocence be preserved, or is it just a wishful euphemism for dangerous ignorance?
3. The FA tried to stamp out the professional foul, a euphemism for cheating, at the start of the 1982-83 season.
4. The story is told that on 25 March 1242 a "man of vile condition called Massaccio" was walking in Via Falcone having, it is said, just lost all of his latest ill-gotten gains - "vile condition" is a euphemism for criminal - at a local gaming house.
5. Forget, he says, the fact that the people (I am desperately trying to avoid using the words "Red Indian" and refuse to opt for the hopelessly inadequate euphemism, Native American) whom the Spaniards and others found had not discovered the wheel and had no draught animals.
6. This is not just a liberal euphemism for the city's ethnic diversity.
7. A not-so-good euphemism for someone who has tried to do him/herself in by hurling him/herself beneath a moving tube train, or someone who has been jostled from a congested platform on to the track, or some kicky kid indulging in Tube surfing-travelling outside the train and hanging on, and falling off, like John Koporo, age 11, who in 1987 at Kilburn became the sport's first victim.
8. If the researcher's interest is sufficiently wide and his pocket sufficiently deep it is advisable to obtain a copy of the appropriate work even if a catalogue does describe the volumes on offer as "disbound", "shaken", with "weak hinges" or some other euphemism for falling apart.
9. Talk about examples (from their own experience or from their reading) of changes in word use and meaning over time, and about some of the reasons for these changes, eg technological developments, euphemism, contact with other languages, fashion .
10. Today Labour talks of investment to pull Britain out of recession, but its investment is merely a euphemism for public spending on an unprecedented scale.
11. The station has even provided a Liverpudlian euphemism for coitus interruptus - "to get off at Edge Hill" - Edge Hill being the last station before Liverpool Lime Street.
12. With most car makers chasing after baby-boomers, Buick decided to concentrate on the generation of buyers longing for "traditional American elegance", a euphemism for cars that appeal to upper-middle-income buyers in their 50s and 60s.
13. In his amateur days he was an "eviction technician" (a fashionable euphemism for bouncer) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image, and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances.