go potty

idiom

US, informal
: to use the toilet
used by children or when talking to children.

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Plenty of articles covered this phenomenon, but nothing captured it for me quite like the New York Times photo of a mother on a work call helping her child go potty while, on the other side of the bathroom wall, the child’s father took his work call in a clean, quiet home office. Washington Post, 6 May 2021 If the dog must go potty, and is brave enough to venture outdoors, put him on a leash and closely supervise him, as unexpected noises may take him by surprise and his instinct may be to run for it! Traci Howerton, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020

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“Go potty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20potty. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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