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A list of phrases related to the word "euphemism"...
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A little of what you fancy does you good
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A wandering eye
Adjust your dress
Adult entertainment ( euphemism for sexual or violent entertainment )
All the way ( euphemism for full sexual activity )
Ample proportions
Angel of the night
Answer the call
Apple polish
Armed intervention
Armed struggle
Asleep with Jesus
At rest
Bait and switch
Barking at the ants
Bash the bishop
Batting for the other side
Be excused
Beat your meat
Bedroom eyes
Below stairs
Bend the rules
Between jobs
Beyond the blanket
Big boned
Bird dog
Bite the dust
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Blood money
Blow chunks
Both oars in the water
Bought the farm
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Bowel movement
Breathe one's last
Broad in the beam
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Brown sugar ( slang term for heroin )
Brown trousers
Built for comfort not speed
Bump off
Bun in the oven
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Bunny hugger
Buy the farm
Call girl
Call of nature
Calling for Huey
Carnal knowledge
Cash in your cheques
Cash in your chips
Caught short
Celestial discharge
Cement shoes
Change into your brown trousers
Chase the dragon
Check out
Cheese eater
Chew a gun
Chicago typewriter
Chinese fire drill
Choke the chicken
Chubby chaser
Chutney ferret
Collateral damage
Colour up
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Combat fatigue
Come across
Come to Jesus
Come to a sticky end
Concrete shoes
Consenting adults
Cop a packet
Cor blimey
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Corn fed
Country sports
Cross over to the other side
Cut the cheese
Deal from the bottom of the deck
Dear John
Deja food
Depart this life
Did the earth move for you
Differently-abled
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Discussing Uganda ( euphemism for sex )
Do what comes naturally
Do your business
Dropped off the perch
Eating disorder
Economical with the truth
Eff off
Enhanced interrogation techniques ( euphemism for torture )
Eternal rest
Ethnic cleansing
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Face your maker
Fall asleep
Fate worse than death
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Fill full of holes
Flirty fishing
Floral tribute
Fold your hand
Freshen up
Full figured
Gardening leave
Gathered to God
Gentleman friend
Gentlemen of colour
Get your leg over
Give up the ghost
Glasgow kiss
Glove money
Go all the way
Go down for the third time
Go down on
Go over to the other side
Go the way of all flesh
Go the whole way
Go to bed with
Go to sleep
Go to the bathroom
Go to your eternal reward
Go with child
Gone before
Gone to a better world
Good time girl
Gordon Bennett!
Granny farming
Grow a tail
Gyppy tummy
Hankie pankie
Happy event
Happy hunting ground
Hard of hearing
Have it away
Have the painters in
Have your ticket punched
He likes a drink
Heavy with child
Hide the sausage
Hiking the Appalachian Trail ( euphemism for adultery )
Hirsutely challenged
Hit the bottle
Hot to trot
House of ill repute
How's your father
Impaired hearing
In Abraham's bosom
In an interesting condition
In reduced circumstances
In the club
In the family way
In the raw
In trouble
It fell off the back of a lorry
Jail bait
Jonnies out of jail
Jump the broomstick
Just good friends
Kick the bucket
Knee trembler
Knocked up
Knocking shop
Lady of the night
Laid off
Laid to rest
Laid up in lavender
Late developer
Laughing at the lawn
Learning difficulties
Leave the room
Leg over
Lie back and think of England
Light in the loafers
Like a rag doll
Like the dickens
Living together
Lose your lunch
Lumpy burp
Make hay
Make out
Make whoopee
Meat packer
Meet your maker
Missing in action
Necktie party
Negative equity
Negatively privilege
Nickel and dime
Night soil
No longer with us
Nocturnal emission
Not tonight Josephine
Nudge nudge, wink wink ( A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus )
Of unsound mind
On Carey Street
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On the job
One off the wrist
Paper the house
Pass on
Pass over to the other side
Paying guest
Peace at last
Peg out
Piece of the action
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Pillow biter
Pop off
Pop your clogs
Powder room
Powder your nose
Press your attentions on
Pressure of work
Private parts
Pull the pin
Pushing up daisies
Put on the wooden overcoat
Put to death
Put to sleep
Recent unpleasantness
Regime change
Resisting arrest
Restricted growth
Reverse engineering
Roll in the hay
Rumpy pumpy
Rush the growler
Sartorially challenged
Shoot blanks
Shot while trying to escape
Shuffle off this mortal coil
Shuffle off to Buffalo
Singing like a duck
Siphon the Python
Six feet under
Slap and tickle
Sleep around
Sleep with
Slipped my moorings ( euphemism for adultery )
Smallest room in the house
Snatched from us
Snuff out
Something for the weekend sir?
Spend a penny
Spend more time with my family
Spend the night with
Sprout wings
Stand before your maker
Step down
Supreme sacrifice
Take a bath
Take care of
Take to the hills
Take your groceries for a swim
Take your life
Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
Ten one hundred
The F word
The beast with two backs
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The big C
The birds and the bees
The departed
The little boys' room
The oldest profession
The way of all flesh
Throw a hump to
Throw up
Tired and over emotional
Top shelf magazine
Training to be a supermodel
Turn a trick
Turn up your toes
Up the duff
Vatican roulette
Visit the ladies room
Visually challenged
Wear the pine overcoat
Wear your apron high
Well endowed
Well fed
Well hung
Wham bam and thank you ma'am
Winter drawers on ( old British euphemistic joke )
With child
Wrong side of the blanket
Your place or mine?