Interactants employ various forms of verbal indirection to embellish their utterances, to draw other interactants' attention to relevant issues, to persuade them, to minimize social and/or communicational tension, and to settle personal scores. Indirection plays a significant role in conversational management as well as in the maintenance of face and in politeness. It finds expression in proverbs, circumlocution, metaphors, euphemisms etc. (Samuel Gyasi Obeng)