be caught/taken short
UK informalto suddenly and unexpectedly need to go to the toilet, especially when it is not convenient for you to do so
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Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
- accident
- anal fissure
- bathroom
- bowel movement
- call of nature idiom
- cowpat
- crap
- droppings
- dump
- go to the bathroom idiom
- guano
- melaena
- mess
- motion
- move
- pass
- poop
- regular
- shite
- turd
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