see a man about a horse
(slang, idiomatic, euphemistic) Used in place of a real explanation when excusing oneself for a short period of time, particularly to use a toilet.

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学英语单词
a convenient memory
abbrevn
advantageousnesses
analytical technique
Arcus pubicus
Area monitor
assholehood
asynergy major
baduizm
Bayonne ham
biofact
bluefaced
Boulgou
box type piston
Caenby Corner
car weight
celsian porcelain
chrome tremolite
chromium hexacarbonyl
clausocalanus jobei
collinear arm
compound chain
conference telephone subset
coupling face
crab walk
cursor controller
cutting-off machines
dedmond
differential comparator amplifier
double transformation
end-packing
entrikin
ethylhexanal
exponent underflow exception
fissidentalium yokoyamai
flak suppression fire
fusion-in-a-jar
gastrophryne carolinenses
gate turnoff
geofracture
gorgonise
health informatics
hexanedinitrile
high school equivalency examination
hooper
Hunyari
intraframes
Jodcarnallit
kineticism
knife register
linear defect
loosening of articular capsule
louver shielding angle
low-loss modulator
LRIM (long-range input monitor)
majoritarian
mela-rosa
Mervaldin
metaxalone
monotransactivator
named user license
naval review
non-inclusive
nonspecific tuberculin reaction
noticeboards
Olt Defile
Oneida Lake
open the batting
outlet operating temperature
outreached
outspanning
peragrate
Pholidota missionariorum
picons
pixel shaders
polymide
pre-emptors
program alternatives
Pseudopohlia
puffinus carneipes
Radleians
reapers' keratitis
rebirth
revenue distribution
Rhizoglyphus
roughling
send orders to
shigella sonnei
signal current
sixain
skeet skeets
slum landlord
smoothing power
spherical bulkhead
Sstreptocccus thermophilus
Stack, Loch
stamp upon
steel mirror
stephanurus dentatus
ultra-horny
Vermoil
where is it