Little Dorrit
No, it is a fictive office.
put some lotion on my circumlocution
antonym of circumlocution is : brevity or concisenesss
The word is Periphrasis....and is the same as 'circumlocution
"The father of one's father" is the circumlocution of "grandfather".
Post Office - novel - was created in 1971.
An ambage is an ambiguity in speech, or a circumlocution.
Circumlocution, which means a wordy way of speaking, comes from the latin for "round" (circum) as a prefix, and the latin word meaning "to speak" and that word is "locutus"
Due to his recent stroke, Mr. Carlson used circumlocution to mask his difficulty recalling the names of household appliances.
lol its hard
His admission came after years of circumlocution.
1. The king of the jungle (the lion) 2. The top of the world (Mt Everest) 3. The giant star (the sun) etc etc.