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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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