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To: nickcarraway

I believe a euphemism from the past was “great and good friend.”


5 posted on 05/06/2021 6:01:13 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: PLMerite

“I believe a euphemism from the past was “great and good friend.”

Edith Wharton in “The Age of Innocence” refers to a man’s mistress relationship as “an alternate establishment”.


31 posted on 05/07/2021 9:14:57 AM PDT by cymbeline
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