pay a call

pay a call
pay a call
Euph. to go to the toilet; to leave to go to the toilet. (See also pay a call on someone.) •

Excuse me. I have to pay a call.

Tom left to pay a call. He should be back soon.

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{v. phr.} To visit someone. * /"Come and pay us a call some time, when you're in town," Sue said to Henry./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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