| 1.pro-life (Amer.):Several columns ago, when I wrote that “students, disability activists, and pro-lifers” were demonstrating at Princeton, the copy desk here at USNews wanted to change “pro-lifers” to “abortion opponents”(euph)
2.pro-choice(Amer.):They ran an old tape on television last night, denouncing the pro-choice movement .(euph)
3.assisted suicide/aid in dying: As the word “euthanasia” gives way to the term “assisted suicide”, issues of consent are blurring…..This intellectual and moral blurring is helped along by terms like “aid in dying”.(euph)
4.Don Juan:Etlin has great courage and charm, yet his Donjuanism somehow detracts from his authority.(euph)
5.Down’s syndrome :
People they spoke to about mongolism- Down’s syndrome as Angella insisted on referring to it.(euph)
Kraepelin’s syndrome:….to rid the ailment of unpleasant associations, there are now moves to have it called Kraepelin’s syndrome(euph)
6.Peeping Tom: Luje tried to persuade himself that he wasn’t spying.It wasn’t like he was being a Peeping Tom or anything.(euph)
7.imaginative journalism :… a piece of imaginative journalism was being perpetrated by one of its own journalists(euph)
8.another good man gone!(catch phrase)
9.are you with me?(catch phrase)
10.Better Red than dead!(catch phrase)
11.Smile, you are on “Candid Camera”(catch phrase)
12.point taken! (catch phrase)
13.All quiet on the Potomac/all quiet in the Shipka Pass/all quiet on the Western Front (catch phrase)
14.public enemy number one (catch phrase)
| Opposed to abortion on demand.A belief so strongly held by some as to justify their murdering abortions acting within the law
In favour of abortion on demand
Euthanasia
A male philanderer. The successful practitioner in seduction inspired the music of Mozart, and the words of Moliere, Byron and Shaw, to name but a few. Whence donjuanism, such behaviour.
A congenial disorder due to a chromosome deficiency. This is an example of a phrase incorporating syndrome being used to avoid a taboo word –in this case at what was formerly known as Mongolism .Here the stigma and the possible racial sneer are circumvented by naming the affliction after the English physician John Langdon Down (1828-1896)
In the same way we may prefer not to talk about schizophrenia.
A sexual voyer(a person who gains sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity ■ a person who enjoys seeing the pain or distress of others).Leofric, the Anglo-Saxon Lord of Coventry agreed to postpone an increase in taxes if his wife, Godiva, rode naked through the streets. The townspeople were forbidden to watch, and how anybody would have known if Tom hadn’t peeped is a master for conjecture.
Sensationalist fabrication. It is unwise to call a journalist a liar because the press has more chances of hurting you than you have in return.
A men’s ruefully regretful remark passed on a man either engaged to be married or esp. very recently married.
Do you understand? Do you still follow me or the argument?
It’s better to live(even) under communist rule than to die. The Us version , during the 1950s among the conservative groups was better dead than red
From a long-running hidden-camera show. Picking up on this nasty US idea of cashing in on the victim’s embarrassment.
Acceptance of a point in an argument : as in “You’ve put a very good case. Point taken!”
A comparatively quiet period in 1861-2 on that sector(the Civil War). It enraged a public that wanted action and soon caught on and often somewhat derisive irony
The phrase now means “anyone I don’t care for” ; a criminal, an illness, that is regarded as the most serious threat to people’s safety or health
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