WE REGRET THE LADIES CONVENIENCES ARE OUT OF ORDER. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE Are washrooms/bathrooms/toilets/other euphemisms ever known as "conveniences" in the USA? It's used here, but not often. It does seem rather Victorian to me.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
They aren't called conveniences here. Every so often here is Europe I will forget and ask for the restroom, getting a blank stare. I know we have discussed this here before, but toilet just seems so crass to me.
George (Richard Burton) called it the "euphemism" in "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" (1966). Apparently, euphemism was used for outhouse in It's Grinch Night, originally titled Halloween is Grinch Night (1977).
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The word euphemism itself can be used as a euphemism. In the animated short It's Grinch Night (See Dr. Seuss), a child asks to go to the euphemism, where euphemism is being used as a euphemism for outhouse. This euphemistic use of "euphemism" originally occurred in the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? where a character requests, "Martha, will you show her where we keep the, uh, euphemism?".
