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call of nature

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call of nature
Euph. the need to go to the lavatory. Stop the car here! I have to answer the call of nature. There was no break in the agenda, not even for the call of nature.
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Of course, there never would have been a ``Urinetown'' if one of the show's creators had either saved a few extra francs back in 1995 or if he hadn't felt the call of nature precisely when he did.
ISBN: 90-5823-077-5, $69 Sewage Solutions: Answering the Call of Nature Nick Grant, Mark Moodie, Chris Weedon Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2001, 192 pp.
Am so thirsty I can barely spit, and at dusk today I was forced to answer the call of nature.
 
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