Rawson's Dictionary Of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk: - Revised Edition - Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flou rishes for Artful

Rawson, Hugh

ISBN 10: 0517702010 / ISBN 13: 9780517702017

Editore: Crown (edition Revised, Subsequent), 1995

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• Titolo: Rawson's Dictionary Of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk: - Revised Edition - Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flou rishes for Artful
• Editore: Crown (edition Revised, Subsequent)
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0517702010
• ISBN 13: 9780517702017
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: Revised, Subsequent.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

An updated volume highlights an additional six hundred entries and explains the meanings and origins of such universally vague terms as "delicate condition," "rooster," "massage parlor," and "covert operation." 12,500 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore

Hugh Rawson is director of Penguin Reference Books at Penguin USA.