Now in paperback, this brand new edition of A Dictionary of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Mean is still as lively a guide to the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery, and deceit as you could wish for. Packed full of the old favourites, such as `early bath` or `push up the daisies`, as well as euphemisms from modern times, like `human sacrifice`, `coffee-housing`, and `tuft-hunter`. Definitions include examples from literature and the press, along with historical explanations of origins, and now obsolete euphemisms like `leaping house`, `nightingale` are signposted as such. And to prove that the use of euphemisms is not just a British speciality, there is widespread coverage of American euphemisms too: `English` (pertaining to sexual deviance), `watermelon` (an indication of pregnancy).