nature's call

nature's call

euphemism The urge or need to urinate or defecate. Jim is off answering nature's call—he should be back any minute. Is anyone else feeling nature's call before we get back in the car?
See also: call
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nature’s call

and call of nature
n. the feeling of a need to go to the toilet. I think I feel nature’s call coming on.
See also: call
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • nature’s call
  • a call of nature
  • call of nature
  • nature
  • answer the call of nature
  • Can I have (one) call you?
  • Could I have call you?
  • marker
  • call in (one's) marker
  • call my service
References in periodicals archive
He had gone inside the forest to attend nature's call where he was attacked by a tiger."
Sources close to the deceased said that Mrs Omoloye ''after taking her bath entered her room to dress up, but was pressed and entered her toilet which according to the source, is water system to answer nature's call.
They will no longer attend to nature's call on the beach and other public places.
People travel from one place to another in an insecure manner to answer nature's call. How absurd is this that we as a country do not consider this problem worthy of being addressed.
Tofazzel, who came out of his home to respond to nature's call, sustained bullet injuries in the head around 6 am during the gunfight.
As the Toyota Corolla, with registration number GW 4442-17, was descending the steep mountain, around 2 p.m., they asked the driver to park for them to attend nature's call, to which he obliged.
The incident happened on Wednesday morning when Prabu Bhatara, was returning in an SUV and stopped to attend nature's call.
Reading all this might have lightened you up a little, but the price might be enough to answer the nature's call. The Veil is priced at Rs 3,05,476 while the Numi will set you back by Rs 4,87,462.
IANS Ranchi A 15-year-old girl, who had gone to answer nature's call, was gang-raped in Jharkhand's Chatra district and later burnt to death, police said on Friday.
He contended in the resolution that Pakistan is on number 5th in the world where people answer nature's call in open places.
In her complaint petition, the woman, identified as Rangeela Devi, said she came to her in-laws' home five years back after marriage, but was compelled to answer nature's call in the open which was humiliating.
One reveller was even pictured answering nature's call on one street in Marsden.
continued from page 1 nature's call out in the open.
Now nature's call has been celebrated in a fascinating new book from travel gurus Lonely Planet.
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