pick flowers

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Etymology[edit]

(use the toilet): A calque of Japanese お花摘みに行く (o-hanatsumi ni iku)

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (euphemistic) to use the toilet; to answer the call of nature
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick,‎ flowers.