Album Rating: 4.5
Other common euphemisms include:
a love of musical theatre, light in the loafers, good fashion sense or confirmed bachelor for male homosexuality
abattoir, for slaughterhouse
acting like rabbits, making love to, getting it on, cheeky time, doing it, making the beast with two backs, or sleeping with for having sex with
adult entertainment, adult material, or erotica for pornography
alcohol-related, single-car crash for drunk driver
an intestinal release of pressure for fart
bathroom tissue, t.p., or bath tissue for toilet paper (usually used by toilet paper manufacturers)
big, fluffy, "thick-boned", full-figured or heavy-set instead of fat
body at room temperature for being dead
chemical dependency for drug addiction (though these technically describe distinct conditions)
co-morbidity for simultaneous existence of related mental and physical health issues (when morbidity is used as a medical term for illness)
correctional facility for prison
custodian or caretaker for janitor (Also originally a euphemism — in Latin, it means doorman. In the British Secret Service, it may still carry the ancient meaning. It does in the novels of John le Carré.)
differently abled for disabled
discontinuation syndrome for withdrawal
dual-diagnosed for having both mental illness and drug problems
economically depressed neighborhood or culturally-deprived environment for ghetto or slum
enhanced interrogation technique for torture[10]
fee for fine
feeling no pain (and dozens of others) for drunk
fertility center for infertility center
force, police action, peace process or conflict for war
gaming for gambling
gender reassignment for sex change
gentlemen's club for go-go bar or strip club
getting smashed or hammered instead of drinking or being drunk
gravitationally challenged for clumsy
haem or heme (Americanism) for blood, often used in medical settings ("severe heme loss").
held back: a student being held back a grade level for having failed or flunked the grade level
ill-advised for very poor or bad
intellectually challenged for being mentally retarded, which replaced feeble minded, which had itself succeeded halfwit
it's snowin' down south for your slip is showing
legal capital for stated capital
lost their lives for were killed
mature or been around the block for old or elderly
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Album Rating: 4.5
RIP Realm... We've had our good times, and our bad times, but I'll really miss you man... Just think, I have written confirmation of your life, only, it won't last. You're gone before your time bro.
08.16.10
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