Substitutes for tabu expressions — Mythoi

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Substitutes for tabu expressions.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Other speaking tabus. · view the constellation · filed as C490.1

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Filed under Other speaking tabus.

1 finer motif beneath it

"Save it for the beggar" (substitute for "save it for tomorrow". You may be dead by tomorrow.)

Filed beside it

Tabu: expressing astonishment at marvel. (Cf. C411, C423.2.)Tabu: speaking to strangers Tabu: thanking (under certain circumstances)Tabu: cursing Tabu: using any except one certain phrase Tabu: using obscene language Tabu: speaking to the dead Speaking tabu: the one forbidden expression Additional speaking tabus