birds and bees
The awkward conversation
The birds and bees is a euphemism for basic facts about sex and reproduction, especially as explained to children: It's time we had a talk about the birds and bees.
The phrase invokes nature's innocence to soften an awkward conversation.
Parents who haven't had "the talk" may dread it; those who have often find the buildup worse than the conversation itself.
- beeStinging nectar gatherer
- parental guidanceAdvisory for young viewers
- pollinationFlower reproductive transfer
- sexReproductive category or act
- euphemismMild substitute for bluntness
nature · coupling · making love · reproduction · allegory · courtship · innuendo · boys and girls · metaphor · figurative speech · facts of life · puberty talk · colloquialism · screw · idiom · shag · fuck · fertility
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- childhood traditionsbedtime stories, bedtime story, birthday parties, birthday party, birthdays
- innuendoinnuendo, sexual innuendo, double entendre, double meaning, implied meaning
- risquerisque, racy, bawdy, ribald, suggestive
birds and beessex education
Instruction about human reproduction
anatomy lesson · pornography · the talk · unvarnished truth · adult content
birds and beesinnocence
Freedom from wrongdoing
naivety · ignorance · childhood innocence · sheltered · oblivious
birds and beessilence
Total lack of sound
taboo · avoidance · willful ignorance · prudery · swept under the rug
bird, birds, birding, birded, birder, birders, birdlike, bees, beelike