Inhaltsangabe
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.
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Hugh Rawson is director of Penguin Reference Books at Penguin USA.
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s celebrated language book in a new edition updated with more than 600 new entries. "Rawson is no dry lexicographer but a brother-in-arms of Ambrose Bierce, Dr. Johnson, and H. L. Mencken, God rest their crusty souls."--Chicago Sun-Times.
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Rawson's Dictionary Of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk: - Revised Edition - Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flou rishes for Artful
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Crown (edition Revised, Subsequent), 1995
ISBN 10: 0517702010
ISBN 13: 9780517702017
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Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk : Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flourishes for Artful Users of the English Language
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Crown Publishing Group, The, 1995
ISBN 10: 0517702010
ISBN 13: 9780517702017
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Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk : Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flourishes for Artful Users of the English Language
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Crown Publishing Group, The, 1995
ISBN 10: 0517702010
ISBN 13: 9780517702017
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