as a nurse, when i require help from my coworkers to clean up the unfortunate incontinent patient, we call an unofficial code brown.
Seriously, you don’t get this one?
It derives from an old slogan at the pork packing plant.
“Everything except the squeal.”
A knowing person, would retort;
“They use the squeal for the noontime whistle.”
Sausage has been the historic repository for all the odds and ends not fit for whole consumption. Examine the ingredients for most commercial chorizo. Lips, snouts, lymph nodes (wtf?) unidentified cartilaginous globules, spam and scrapple! A more recent adaptation of this old saw is;
People who like laws or sausages should never watch either being made.
'Strine euphemisms tend to be a bit racist …
“Choking a darkie”
or the more politically correct;
“Throttling a non-white.”
Their all time best euphemism for urination is;
“Shake hands with the wife’s best friend.”
Then there are the all purpose forms:
“I’ve got to inspect the plumbing”
or
“I’m going to check the pipes”
Growing up in Australia, we used a few for urination, some of which have already been mentioned.
Bleed the lizard
Drain the main vein
Siphon the python
My favourite has always been
Unbutton the mutton.
**Downloading corrupt files
Performing the defacatory act
Sending a message to Barking**
This last one is a reference to the enormous covered sewer that runs through East London and ends at Barking. People think it’s an abandoned railway embankment, and it’s visible in the titles for “Eastenders”.
The most common euphemism is in the OP: “Going to the bathroom”. People use it to describe visits to rooms that have no baths in the them, they use it to describe relieving oneself in the outdoors, and they even use it to describe the actions of animals who have never seen the inside of any bathroom (“Look, that elephant is going to the bathroom!”).
My DH (an Army Ranger) is quite fond of saying he’s “got a jumper in the door”.