A very likeable unmarried middle-aged lady who could be truthfully described as "an unclaimed blessing" excused the nastiness of a disagreeable old maid by saying: "Her problem is she has never been awakened."Say wwh, your example above is an example of excellent and colorful prose, but I'm not sure that this allusion is a euphemism. To me the idea of
Awakened, even if the phrase,
by a man, is implied, doesn't necessarily represent
a bounce in the bed, a roll in the hay, and so forth, ad nauseum.
The act of
Being awakened, like
an unclaimed blessing, seems better understood as a larger, more significant, event than a mere euphemistic
bang in bed.
Of course I don't speak for the board.
