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call of nature
noun
- a need to urinate or defecate.
Word History and Origins
Origin of call of nature1
Idioms and Phrases
Need to urinate or defecate, as in He left to answer the call of nature . This euphemism may be dying out. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
His convoy at the summit was also reported to feature a private toilet car, used by the leader to answer the call of nature while travelling.
But I was more concerned about how to answer the call of nature with a bunch of strangers than I was about speed as I chatted with our group leader, Bill Borom, and Mountaineers regular Rich DuBois on the carpool to the trailhead.
One big cause of unofficial trails is people looking to respond to “the call of nature” in the woods because of insufficient portable toilets and inadequate signs pointing to existing facilities.
When he could no longer resist the call of nature, Hunt reached for a half-empty bottle of Johnnie Walker Red.
However, she almost missed her big moment by attending to a call of nature minutes before her name was called out.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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