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单词 Terminological inexactitude
释义

Terminological inexactitude

原声例句
经济学人-综合

Despite his liking for phrases such as “terminological inexactitude”, he was not a dissembler.

尽管他爱用“谎话连篇”这种词,却绝不是伪君子。

英语百科

Terminological inexactitude

Terminological inexactitude is a phrase introduced in 1906 by British politician (later Prime Minister) Winston Churchill. Today, it is used as a euphemism or circumlocution meaning a lie or untruth.

Churchill first used the phrase during the 1906 election. Following the election, speaking in the House of Commons on 22 February 1906 as Under-Secretary of the Colonial Office, he repeated what he had said during the campaign:

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