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Gotta piss like a racehorse
Meaning
- A very common, slightly crude way to say that you really, really need to use the bathroom. It emphasizes that the situation is urgent.
Crude, emphatic
Used in a sentence
- Can we stop at the next gas station? I gotta piss like a racehorse.
- He sprinted into the house shouting that he had to piss like a racehorse.
- I drank way too much coffee, and now I gotta piss like a racehorse.
The backstory
This is an old American colloquialism. It likely draws on the observation that horses, being large animals, have a very significant and long-lasting bladder release.
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