nature stop

nature stop

euphemism A short break in order to urinate or defecate. About halfway up the mountain trail I had to go behind a tree for a nature stop. No more nature stops—we're running late enough as it is!
See also: nature, stop
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nature stop

Fig. a stop to use the toilet, especially during road travel. I think I need a nature stop when it's convenient. I left my comb back at the last nature stop.
See also: nature, stop
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

nature stop

n. a stop to use the toilet, especially during road travel. (Euphemistic.) I think I need a nature stop when it’s convenient.
See also: nature, stop
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a call of nature
  • call of nature
  • answer the call of nature
  • debt to nature
  • in a state of nature
  • nature
  • in the nature of things
  • another kettle of fish
  • be another kettle of fish
  • be a different kettle of fish
References in periodicals archive
Do remember for the benefit of travelers new to general aviation that an urgent need for a nature stop takes more time to make than when driving--and unlike the Human Mailing Tubes, piston aircraft aren't known for their lavatories.
Entry-Level travel: you can use basic airplanes to travel, but not the same way as more-capable choices
Don't let a lazy nature stop you from doing your work.
Your stars
He's not going to let a little thing like nature stop him."
I want to have Brad's babies; JOKER JACK BLACK REVEALS SEEING STAR COUPLE'S CUTE KIDS PERSUADED HIM TO BECOME A DAD
Stroll from the Nature Park to Breezewald Park with nature stops along the way.
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Then everything of a prospecting nature stops again.
Never stop prospecting
She says she tries to capture those moments when nature stops you in your tracks, or when the landscape seems to echo your inner thoughts and feelings.
Fairytale landscapes are brought to life; A highlight of the Winter Group Show at Swansea's Attic Gallery is the intense and beautiful work of Sara Philpott. JennyWhite took a look
Landlord Lawson very kindly allowed this pair of team-mates a room in his house for a year, although the Rigsby of the north's good nature stops when it comes to the remote control And if County do stun Celtic, this trio, who clearly have a good taste when it comes to their newspaper, better be well stocked up just in case they get a visitor or 20 knocking on the door.
PARTY BACK AT OUR BIT; THERE'S A PARTY AT OUR BIT
Nature stops us creating life past the age that we can reasonably expect to have enough years left to bring up that child.
Nature is best judge of time for a baby
This attitude is consistent from the initial pages of the book, where nature stops to pay homage to the infant John Henry, to the foreman's soliloquy on dynamiting and tunnel-making, and finally to John Henry's climatic hammering through the mountainside.
John Henry: then and now
His father teaches him to play the lyre so that all nature stops to listen to his music.
Orpheus and Eurydice