pick flowers

English

Etymology

"Picking flowers" is a sufficiently obvious excuse for separating from a group and squatting down outside that it is found in a wide range of places and languages, from Britain to Botswana and Japanese to Isan.

Verb

pick flowers (third-person singular simple present picks flowers, present participle picking flowers, simple past and past participle picked flowers)

  1. (euphemistic) To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick,‎ flowers.
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