"Your brother has been killed in a martyrdom operation," the caller said, using a common euphemism to describe a suicide bombing.

A common euphemism is 七 cat1 (seven), which only differs in the tone.

Certainly being "bitten by a Winchester goose" was a common euphemism for syphilis in the 16th century.

The film's title is a common euphemism for the word hell.

"A short ride between" is a common euphemism for ending an unwanted pregnancy.

In French, gorge (throat) was a common euphemism for the breast.

"The C-word" is already a common euphemism for cancer.

Our most common euphemism for death is to say the person passed away.

Its most common euphemism, for some reason considered less distasteful, was and often still is "the curse."

That of course is a common euphemism for death, but why had he not employed it for his wife also?