Idioms and Euphemisms 1 Determine which sentences include idioms and which include euphemisms. Relevant words or phrases are
boldfaced.
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I didn't lie; I simply supplied you with
disinformation
I'm not old; I'm just chronologically
challenged.
My job interview is tomorrow, so keep
your fingers crossed.
This suitcase is heavy. Can you please
give me a hand?
Year-round school! If I had my druthers,
we'd have year-round vacation!

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

●intensive purposes is the correct answer

harry says he would trade a gold mine for a glass of water.