Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things: The Unusual Book of Euphemisms

Published in 144
203 pages

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While researching her bestselling novels Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife and Darcy & Elizabeth, author Linda Berdoll was surprised and delighted by the euphemisms she turned up —most of them of an insulting nature. Berdoll compiled them here to entertain and enlighten. She lives on a pecan farm in Del Valle, Texas, with her husband.

What is this book about?
At a loss for words, hockey puck? You can always quote Shakespeare…

Or delve into this entertaining compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Filled with common and not-so-common zingers that will both shock you and make you laugh your ass off.

Includes:

  • Exactly how to address individual mounds of foul, undigested lumps of donkey entrails
  • That “F”-ing word and other intensives
  • Many, many ways to refer to the part that goes over the fence last
  • More euphemisms, synonyms, phrases and descriptions than you knew existed for sexual activities, proclivities, untoward incidents, accidents of nature and the beast with two backs
  • Has annoying clip-art style illustrations that get really old after awhile