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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPost your favorite euphemism for going to the bathroom
My latest favorite is...
I'm going to shake hands with the President.
KPN
(15,646 posts)After reading just the title, i was going to say "going to say hello to the President".
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)telling it to Trumpy's face. The odd fun occurs by laying down a sheet in the water and letting it all go in the name of all the enraged and motivated neverTrumpers.
Eh.. enjoy your breakfast.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,547 posts)Pun intended! 😏
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)Chemisse
(30,813 posts)I like to refer to it as a need to "use the facilities."
My high school students find the formality of it pretty funny, and it's a nice contrast to comments such as, "I gotta go take a dump."
Motley13
(3,867 posts)baño
wouldn't take ñ in the title
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Alternatively, casa de ca-ca
demigoddess
(6,641 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,939 posts)implying that, like a daily walk, it has some therapeutic value.
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I'm going to release the Kraken
Time to walk the snake
I need to go water the lemon tree
Runningdawg
(4,517 posts)I grew up living with extended family. All the women used this expression.
cornball 24
(1,477 posts)TlalocW
(15,383 posts)I need to go evacuate my bowels.
Sometimes in a Boston accent - I have to go take a wicked pissah!
TlalocW
pnwest
(3,266 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)underpants
(182,823 posts)For when I'm away from home.
lastlib
(23,239 posts)Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)About as euphemistic as one can get.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)hermetic
(8,308 posts)shake the dew off the lily. Heard this in TN a lot, many years ago.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)benld74
(9,904 posts)mac56
(17,569 posts)Drain the main vein.
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Bucky
(54,014 posts)Indoors I'll say something like "make a strafing run", or more prosaically "hit the head".
Also used:
* draw Excalibre
* drop a duke
* catch up on my reading
* make a Trump video
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Have lots of books in the bathroom.
unblock
(52,243 posts)these days it's smartphone time, though....
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)hibbing
(10,098 posts)Drain the pickle
Drop the kids off at the pool
Peace
applegrove
(118,677 posts)She would always say that.
LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)"I'm gotta talk to a guy about a horse".
At first I took it literally....but I was bewildered cuz my BF was really into cars...He was so into cars that I thought horse was maybe slang for a car.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,861 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...instead of going to the toilet. Or, for that matter, urinating and defecating...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts). . .sailor/Navy expression, doncha know?
GreydeeThos
(958 posts)I'll be right with you but I gotta hit the head first.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)bluestarone
(16,959 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)Is this a southern thing? I heard it growing up in Florida.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)"I have to pee like a wild race horse."
ps: I grew up in Washington. Not totally sure where I picked that up, though.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)some timber.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)lastlib
(23,239 posts)using the Trump Dump....
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)AmandaRuth
(3,105 posts)a friend said that to me years ago, and i still use it.
Leith
(7,809 posts)Surprising that nobody has said that one yet...
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)already a euphamism?
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)Or "torque off a moonfish", or "leave a steamy klinker".
I spent way too much time in college thinking about this.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)malthaussen
(17,200 posts)Not that I've ever been in the Navy.
-- Mal
enid602
(8,620 posts)Squeeze a loaf.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)wishstar
(5,269 posts)and when they came out of bathroom saying one of those expressions, I would always sarcastically say "well, I'm proud" or "congratulations"