"euphemism for" 'word for'

[Jonathan Lighter]

This usage is quite familiar to me from cable-news talking heads. They often
seem to prefer "euphemism" to "synonym."

In fact, my impression is that they rarely say "synonym" at all.

JL

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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