# Your couple's euphemism for The Act

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 15, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316 "2003-05-15T00:38:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lurker\_anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@lurker\_anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurker_anonymous)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/81 "2003-05-23T03:05:27Z")

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“uh, do you want to take a break from that now?” considered well done when it is an especially mundane task like cutting ones nails.

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**Author:** ![lurker\_anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@lurker\_anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurker_anonymous)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/82 "2003-05-23T03:15:13Z")

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o, how can i forget the follow up-when you go to “lilly whites party.” a euphemism for the nap after sex. i don’t know the origins of that phrase (new thread, anyone?) but it is used extensively in my husbands family for innocent and not so innocent naps.

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**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/83 "2003-05-23T13:40:09Z")

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“Up for a swim?”

We’re big campers and the first time we went camping together we made wonderful love wilst swimming in the lake. . .

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