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toilet powder room; little girl’s room; facilities; washroom;

lavatory; head

The left-hand column is the direct, non-pussyfooting word. The right-hand column is
made up of:

euphemisms

5. small talk

“Whenever I’m in the dumps, I get a new suit.”
“Oh, so that’s where you get them!”
“Lend me a dime—I want to phone one of my friends.”

“Here’s a quarter—call them all.”
“The doctor says I have snoo in my blood!”
“Snoo? What’s snoo?”
“Not a darn! What’s new with you?”
“What are twins?”
“Okay, what are twins?”

“Womb mates!”
“I took a twip yesterday.”
“A twip?”
“Yes, I took a twip on a twain!”
These are examples of:
badinage

6. everything but give milk

You’ve seen a cow contentedly munching its cud. Nothing seems capable of disturbing
this animal—and the animal seems to want nothing more out of life than to lead a simple,
vegetable existence.

Some people are like a cow—calm, patient, placid, phlegmatic, vegetable-like. They are:

bovine 1

7. good old days

Do you sometimes experience a keen, almost physical, longing for associations or places
of the past?
When you pass the neighborhood in which you were born and where you spent your
early years, do you have a sharp, strange reaction, almost akin to mild nausea?
When you are away from home and friends and family, do pleasant remembrances crowd
in on your mind to the point where your present loneliness becomes almost unbearable,