{"id":73262,"date":"2020-03-23T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73262"},"modified":"2020-03-23T06:06:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:06:35","slug":"see-a-man-about-a-dog-powder-my-nose-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/see-a-man-about-a-dog-powder-my-nose-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"See A Man About A Dog | Powder My Nose | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These expressions have very similar meanings and they are both used in informal contexts. Let\u2019s start with the first one.<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0<b>see a man about a dog\u00a0<\/b>is to go to the bathroom. It is an indirect (and hence more polite) way of saying that you wish to use the toilet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a strong tea for me. In the meanwhile, I have to<b>\u00a0see a man about a dog<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Excuse me. I am going to<b>\u00a0see a man about a dog<\/b>. I will be back in a minute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This expression is also used in those situations when you want to keep your destination or the purpose of your visit a secret.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t know where Rahul has gone. He just said that he had to\u00a0<b>see a man about a dog<\/b>. (Rahul doesn\u2019t reveal his destination. He just says that he has to go.)<\/li>\n<li>Rohan is very secretive. He never says anything about his frequent trips. If you ask, he will just say that he has to<b>\u00a0see a man about a dog<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Women often use the phrase\u00a0<b>powder my nose<\/b>\u00a0to express their desire to use the bathroom. This phrase is not normally used by men.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excuse me. I wish to\u00a0<b>powder my nose<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These expressions have very similar meanings and they are both used in informal contexts. Let\u2019s start with the first one. To\u00a0see a man about a dog\u00a0is to go to the bathroom. It is an&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[393,2117,2116],"class_list":["post-73262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-powder-my-nose","tag-see-a-man-about-a-dog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73263,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73262\/revisions\/73263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}