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to the toilet

to the toilet

22 1.0
Go to the bathroom to pee or poo
  • idiom
  • NSFW
translation icon : ir al baño
  • I went to the toilet.
  • go to the toilet
  • need to go to the toilet
  • run to the toilet

So then I got up and I slowly walked to the toilet and I sat down to pee.

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Examples

  • Can you help me to the toilet, please?

    The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

  • "Do you need to go to the toilet?" his mother asked.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • And a lot of times I will get to the toilet and use it.

  • Then we'll come through here to the toilet, turn the light on.

  • I need to go to the toilet so I just got home.

  • No, I want to go to the toilet.

    Phua Chu Kang The Movie (2010)

  • I told Mother I was going to the toilet.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I'll have to go to the toilet.

    Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

  • I'm going to the toilet.

    Julia (1977)

  • I really need to go to the toilet before we leave.

Synonyms

to go to the bathroom
vsto the toilet
  • US
278 1.0

To use the toilet in a polite or indirect way

is more direct and neutral rather than polite or indirect
to use the bathroom
vsto the toilet
  • US
77 1.1

To go to the toilet to pee or poo

is the plain direct way to state the need without polite phrasing
to use the washroom
vsto the toilet
  • Canadian
1 1.9

To go to a room with a toilet to pee or poo

is the direct, plain expression for the same bodily need rather than polite
to use the loo
vsto the toilet
  • UK
1 8.0

To go to the toilet to pee or poo

is the general way to state the same need without regional marking

Surface Forms

to the toilet main

Morphology

to + the + toilet

The phrase combines the directional preposition 'to' with the definite article 'the' and the noun 'toilet' (bathroom), so its meaning 'go to the bathroom' is directly derivable from the constituents. This locative/compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and not idiomatic, so a B1 learner who knows the words will understand it.

Etymology

To the toilet comes from the simple picture of moving to the room called the toilet, where people go to pee or poo. That's why it means 'to go to the bathroom'.