The word "john" is a euphemism, or substitute, for the word "toilet."
The euphemism, casualties is used to replace the word deaths.
The word 'euphemism' is a noun, a word for a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt, unpleasant or embarrassing.A noun functions as the subject of a sentence or a clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition.Examples:A euphemism can't minimize the fact that he is dead. (subject of the sentence)Caution, the word love can be a euphemism for ownership and control. (direct object of the verb 'can be')
The father talked with euphemism of how the child's mother had passed away.
A euphemism is a figure of speech. You use a euphemism when you don't want to use the actual name or word for something.Instead of saying that she died, he used a euphemism.
He was released yesterday at the funeral.
Chance is thus neatly collapsed into a euphemism for ignorance, or lack of sufficient observation.
Extremism is sometimes a euphemism for terrorism.
I use a euphemism instead of a curse word when there are ladies present. The madder the Captain gets, the more interesting his euphemisms become!
Being treated like a girl is a common euphemism for not being taken seriously. Companies will often use a term such as furlough, downsize, or layoff as a euphemism for firing employees.
There are no perfect rhymes for the word euphemism.
The hippo was a euphemism for the loud lion a few miles away.