| 词汇 | expletive deleted |
| 词源 | expletive deleted. Expletive deleted has quickly become a eu- phemism to use in place of a curse, especially for four-letter words. The phrase originated in the 1970s after Watergate, de- riving of course from the transcripts of President Nixon’s White House tapes in which many curses are rendered as “expletive deleted.” |
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