Unmentionables: From Family Jewels to Friendly Fire: What We Say Instead of What We Mean by Ralph Keyes

Unmentionables: From Family Jewels to Friendly Fire: What We Say Instead of What We Mean

Ralph Keyes

342 pages • first pub 2010 (view editions)

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LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS. We say a lot about ourselves by what we don't say. Words and phrases like 'collateral damage', 'wardrobe malfunction', 'vertically challenged', and old favourites like 'unmentionables' (trousers, apparently) or 'lady of...

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