dirty weekend

dirty weekend

A secret getaway in which two unmarried people leave town to have sex. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. When Dana and Harry both skipped work on Saturday, we knew they had gone away for a dirty weekend.
See also: dirty, weekend
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a ˌdirty weekˈend

(British English, humorous) a weekend spent away from home in order to have sex, usually with somebody who is not your usual partner: They went away for a dirty weekend in Brighton.
See also: dirty, weekend
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a dirty weekend
  • weekend
  • cheese and kisses
  • skip town
  • bit on the side
  • a bit on the side
  • (as) dead as mutton
  • skip out
  • make a getaway
  • be one of the boys
References in periodicals archive
The Dirty Weekend course record stands at a blistering 2 hours, 34 minutes and 12 seconds, but the average completion time is 4 to 6 hours.
Entries to the 2015 Dirty Weekend event are now open on www.ratrace.com To help the team reach their target for Scott Bell please visit www.scottbellfund.
Andreas Klug of the hotel.info site said: "It looks like people looking for a dirty weekend in every sense of the word should head for the North West."
"For a dirty weekend, come to Margate" offered the artistic one.
Part of the Rat Race "Dirty Weekend" course is a 105m (115yds) stretch of 400 monkey bars, pictured below, from which competitors have to swing to advance.
Sally said on leaving the house: "I used my feminine wiles and took John away for a dirty weekend."
BRIGHTON was once seen as the ideal "dirty weekend" destination but now London is the location for lovers.
So why not treat her right and take her on a dirty weekend. No, I'm talking about a dirt-bike weekend, you mucky minxes.
For De Sica, she appeared in "The Garden of the Fitzi Continis" and "The Voyage" as well as Dino Risi's "Dirty Weekend" and the Taviani brothers' "The Subversives."
I'M driving down a country road bright with autumn leaves for a dirty weekend at the Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
In an episode of the series, which returns July, Rab, Mary Doll and pals Jamesie and Ella Cotter visit sin city for a dirty weekend.
Andreas Klug of the hotel.info site said: "It looks like Brits looking for a dirty weekend in every sense of the word should be heading for the North West."
The 28-year-old from Hebburn is planning to run four half marathons and two 10ks as well as climbing Mount Snowdon, tackling the gruelling coast to coast cycle route and scaling a 20-mile obstacle course known as the Rat Race Dirty Weekend - all within eight months.
"I also have an invoice from the Ten Hill Place Hotel in Edinburgh for your dirty weekend on April 29, paid for by the company.
Things have been moving at a manic pace ever since - they've supported the likes of Sound of Guns, Twisted Wheel, Delays, Detroit Social Club, The Chapman Family, Dirty Weekend, Young Rebel Set and Jimmy & the Sounds.