take a cold shower

take a cold shower

To dampen or suppress sexual urges or feelings by distracting oneself with some kind of activity. Typically used as an imperative. You're losing your mind over this girl. Go take a cold shower before you do something stupid. That movie was steamy! I think I need to go home and take a cold shower.
See also: cold, shower, take
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • close (one's) eyes and think of England
  • England
  • lie back and think of England
  • shut (one's) eyes and think of England
  • selfie
  • wash (one's) hands of (someone or something)
  • wash hands of
  • wash one's hands of
  • wash your hands of somebody/something
  • wash your hands of something/someone
References in periodicals archive
Ben Jardine has become the first Celebrity Big Brother star to strip naked on camera as president of the houseKirstie Alleyforced him to take a cold shower.
"Could you please go take a cold shower," she says while sitting next to him.
CBB's Ben Jardine is first star to strip naked as Kirstie Alley forces him under cold shower; The love-rat - famed for cheating on his Married At First Sight wife Steph - crackled and howled as he bared his body in the freezing water