powder your nose
Definition
› a polite or humorous way of saying that you are going to go to the toilet: Would you get me another drink while I go and powder my nose?Urine and urinatingBodily fluids and their productionExcrement and its excretion
(Definition of powder your nose from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be caught/taken short idiom
- BM noun (EXCRETION)
- bowel movement noun
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- cowpat noun
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- dunghill noun
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