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Euphemisms

Ample proportions
Armed intervention
Asleep with Jesus
Batting for the other side
Be excused (Meaning) 
Between jobs
Big boned
Bite the dust
Blow chunks (Meaning) 
Bought the farm
Breathe one's last
Broad in the beam
Brown trousers
Built for comfort not speed
Bun in the oven - A (Meaning)
Carey Street - On (Meaning/Origin)
Carnal knowledge (Meaning) 
Cash in your chips
Cement shoes
Change into your brown trousers
Chutney ferret
Collateral damage (Meaning) 
Colour up (Meaning) 
Come to Jesus
Comfort women
Concrete shoes
Cor blimey (Meaning/ Origin)
Cross over to the other side
Dear John
Depart this life
Departed - The (Meaning) 
Differently abled (Meaning/Origin)
Do your business (Meaning) 
Dropped off the perch
Economical with the truth (Meaning/Origin)
Eff off (Meaning) 
Eternal rest
Ethnic cleansing
Fall asleep (Meaning) 
Fate worse than death
Full figured
Gardening leave
Gentleman friend
Get your leg over
Give up the ghost
Go all the way
Go down for the third time
Go over to the other side (Meaning) 
Gordon Bennett! (Meaning/Origin)
Hankie pankie (Meaning) 
Happy event - A (Meaning) 
Have it away (Meaning) 
Hide the sausage
Hot to trot
House of ill repute - A (Meaning) 
In an interesting condition (Meaning/Origin)
In reduced circumstances (Meaning) 
In the club (Meaning/Origin)
In the family way (Meaning) 
In trouble (Meaning) 
It fell off the back of a lorry (Meaning) 
Kick the bucket (Meaning/Origin)
Knee trembler
Knocked up (Meaning) 
Knocking shop
Lady of the night - A (Meaning) 
Laid off (Meaning) 
Leave the room (Meaning) 
Leg over
Lie back and think of England
Light in the loafers
Like the Dickens (Meaning/Origin)
Lose your lunch (Meaning) 
Making hay
Making whoopee
Meat packer
Meet your maker
Missing in action
Night soil (Meaning) 
No longer with us
Not tonight Josephine
On Carey Street
On the job
One off the wrist
Pass on (Meaning) 
Pass over to the other side (Meaning) 
Paying guest - A (Meaning) 
Peg out
Pillow biter
Pop your clogs (Meaning) 
Private parts (Meaning) 
Put on the wooden overcoat (Meaning/Origin)
Put to sleep (Meaning) 
Restricted growth
Roll in the hay
Rumpy pumpy
Shoot blanks
Shuffle off this mortal coil
Shuffle off to Buffalo
Slap and tickle
Sleep around
Sleep with (Meaning) 
Smallest room in the house - The (Meaning/Origin)
Snatched from us
Something for the weekend sir?
Spend a penny (Meaning/Origin)
Spend more time with my family (Meaning) 
Supreme sacrifice
The F word
The beast with two backs
The birds and the bees
The call of nature (Meaning) 
The wrong side of the blanket (Meaning) 
Tired and over emotional (Meaning) 
Turn a trick
Turn up your toes
Up the duff (Meaning) 
Visit the ladies room (Meaning) 
Visually challenged
Wear your apron high
Well endowed (Meaning) 
Well hung (Meaning) 
Well fed
Well hung
Wham bam and thank you ma'am
With child (Meaning) 
Your place or mine?