use the toilet

use the toilet

1. To go to a bathroom, restroom, or toilet in order to urinate or defecate. Pardon me, for a moment. I have to use the toilet. Does anyone need to use the toilet before we hit the road? It's going to be a long drive to New Mexico!
2. euphemism To urinate or defecate, regardless of location. A: "What took you guys so long to reach the top of the mountain?" B: "Tommy had to use the toilet about halfway up the trail." I really wish people wouldn't let their dogs use the toilet on our lawn.
See also: toilet, use
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • restroom
  • go to the toilet
  • in the toilet
  • library
  • hug the throne
  • worship the porcelain god
  • praise the porcelain god
  • pray to the enamel god
  • pray to the porcelain god
  • enamel
References in periodicals archive
An hour later, she asked to use the toilet but he insisted and refused although she asked him to inspect her before going to the toilet, she continued, adding "Thirty minutes later I urinated and defecated [...] I was insulted and humiliated." Additional reporting by Sara el-Baz
He added: "Can you explain to me where one has got to [go to] use the toilet when he can't go into a police station, he can't go to any toilet in Great Britain?
Finally, Charlie decides to use the toilet like everyone else.
A BAHRAINI has been locked up for a month for entering a stranger's apartment to use the toilet.
During questioning, the suspect said he had to "continuously" use the toilet because he was taking medication.
My son is currently learning to use the toilet and to make bum-wiping easier I sing a song called "put your bum up in the air".
Teachers can, unwittingly, make life awkward and embarrassing for children wanting to use the toilet during lesson time.
As memory fades, they won't use the toilet if they can't remember what it's for
His bowel habits suddenly changed: he refused to use the toilet; he moved his bowels only when standing up and into a diaper; and the frequency of his stools changed from daily to every three to four days.
A restaurant charged asoldier50p to use the toilet while he helped stricken drivers trapped in the blizzard storm.
Reasons for possible splits range from claustro-phobia, with 37% worrying about being with the other person all the time, to classic British modesty - 24% did not want to use the toilet while their lover was in the hotel room.
A group advocating the rights of the disabled, OKU Sentral, vehemently rejected a deputy minister's suggestion to allow the transgender community to use the toilets reserved for the disabled.
A labour court in San Paulo ordered the employer to pay 2,200 US dollars (pounds 1,400) to the 36-year-old woman who said supervisors never allowed her to use the toilets for more than five minutes at a time.
The pilot of the Boeing 767 from Mexico to Birmingham had to stop off in Goose Bay because passengers could not use the toilets in case they overflowed.
"Some park users said they did not feel they could let their children use the toilets unsupervised."