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How Not to Say What You Mean : A Dictionary of Euphemisms R.W. Holder
- Author: R.W. Holder
- Date: 03 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Language: English
- Book Format: Hardback::528 pages
- ISBN10: 0198604025
- ISBN13: 9780198604020
- File size: 50 Mb
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