hard room

hard room
   a prison cell
   It certainly has no feather bed and soft furnishings:
    ... defacing the walls of some of the subterranean 'hard-rooms' — a polite departmental euphemism for prison cells. (Deighton, 1985)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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