In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.
relationships romance relationship courtship words writing talk communication talking language make-love conversation pursue see euphemism know bed speaking style fuck terminology vocabulary euphemisms slang speech discourse date tongue phrasing court woo courting sexual-intercourse woe chase expressions jargon sleep-with dialect lingo acquaintance mother-tongue idiom acquaint argot cant choice-of-words dysphemism dysphemisms form-of-expression go-out-with go-steady-with idiolect locutions make-acquaintance mode-of-expression native-tongue parlance patois phraseology run-after seek-the-hand set-one-s-cap-for turns-of-phrase usages wording
She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.