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President: Well Jackie, uncork your touchdown play and score.
CIA Director: Mr President?
President: Blast him out of the ballpark!
CIA Director: I'm not too familiar with football, sir...
President: Score, Jackie! Score!
CIA Director: What you're really saying is...
President: Right! Go ahead.
CIA Director: Go where?
President: Dammit man—do it!
CIA Director: Do what, sir?
President: You want me to spell it out?
CIA Director: Yes sir, I do. I have seen the CIA take the rap for the last seven presidents, but no more. Unless you give me a direct order.
President: You want me to say, "Kill him".
CIA Director: That is one of your options.
President: Why, even if I thought such a terrible thing, which I never did... you realise I could be impeached? [snip] That king, the one who wanted to waste Thomas Beckett.
Hacker: King Henry the Second.
President: Right. He didn't say "pop him", "burn him"...he said what?
Hacker: (grand gesture) "Who will rid me of this man?"
President: You get the drift, Jackie?
CIA Director: No sir. All I've heard is "rid me of", "pop him", "burn him" and "score a touchdown". Just as over the years in this office I've heard "terminate with extreme prejudice". I've heard "croak him" and "chill him" and "pop him", "burn him", "fire him"... "grease him".
President: And you still don't understand.
CIA Director: No sir.
President: Well how's this: K-I-Double-L him, by God.
CIA Director: By God, sir?
President: By executive action.
CIA Director: Immediately. Thank you, sir.

Walker: I can take your money, run protection, but it's a bandaid. This guy Davos decides he wants to hurt you all bets are off. And if you don't want to run, you need to eliminate the threat.
Joy: 'Eliminate' is a word with connotations.
Walker: No it isn't. It's just what it sounds like.
Iron Fist (2017), "Heart of the Dragon"

Kremmen: Mr. President, I'd like you to send Gort to the Interstellar Medical Research Centre for Cosmic Psychiatric and Psychoanalytical Psychological Development and Treatment.
President: Ah yes: the loony bin!
Captain Kremmen

Mother: "The traffic out there is dangerous for swamp lizards these days..."
Dilly: "I don't understand what you mean."
Dorla: "What they mean, Dilly, is that they think Swampy's been run over. You know, hit by a dino-car? Flattened. D-E-A-D? Dead? Got it?"
Dilly The Dinosaur, "Dilly and the Missing Pet"

Marge Simpson: "I don't think he's married, Homer."
Homer Simpson: "Oh, a swinging bachelor, eh? Well, there's lots of foxy ladies out there."
Marge: "Homer, didn't John seem a little 'festive' to you?"
Homer: "Couldn't agree more. Happy as a clam."
Marge: "He prefers the company of men!"
Homer: "Who doesn't?"
Marge: "Homer, listen carefully: John is a ho... mo..."
Homer: "Right?"
Marge: "Sexual."
The Simpsons, "Homer's Phobia"

Doctor: Caused a slight... spill.
Donna Noble: You missed the bowl?

Mudd: Well, of course, I...left.
Kirk: He broke jail.
Mudd: I...borrowed transportation—
Kirk: He stole a spaceship.
Mudd: The patrol reacted in a hostile manner—
Kirk: They fired at him.

Young Xehanort: We want to talk to someone who disappeared.
Hades: "Disappeared"? Ohhh, right. Mortals—always have to sugarcoat everything. Well, personally, I prefer "dead."

Dr. Katherine Pulaski: (noticing Counsellor Deanna Troi is looking awkward) "Something wrong?"
Troi: "No, it's just that Commander Riker's emotions are rather passionate."
Pulaski: "As in erotic?"
Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Shades of Gray"

Bella: What? Why would I keep it in my mouth if it is revolting?
Kitty: I have said that before to Gerald ...if you catch my drift.
Duncan: You are wicked.
Bella: ...Oh! Because you mean his penis!

Fjord: [Jester's mother] entertains gentlemen. She's… hard to describe, a performer, an entertainer...
Jester: Well—she is mostly known for her "herm herm herm", but outside of that... Her voice, is amazing. You should hear her sing.
Caleb: What does that mean?
Jester: What does what mean?
Caleb: "Herm herm herm"?
Jester: She has sex for money!


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