Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk: Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flourishes for Artful User...
- ISBN-10
- 0517196344
- ISBN-13
- 9780517196342
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-11-01
- Publisher
- Random House Value Pub
- Author
- Hugh Rawson
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- 2002
- 463 pages
- Paperback
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- 1995
- 463 pages
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