Phrase guide
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verb
To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
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verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
"Picking flowers" is a sufficiently obvious excuse for separating from a group and squatting down outside that it is found in a wide range of places and languages, from Britain to Botswana and Japanese to Isan.
