Where is your powder room?
- Where is your powder room?
Could I use your powder room? & Can I use your powder room? & May I use your powder room? & Where is your powder room?
Euph. a polite way to ask to use the bathroom in someone's home. (Alludes to a woman powdering her nose. Sometimes used jocularly by men. See also
powder one's
nose.) •
Mary: Oh, Sally, could I use your powder room? Sally: Of course. It's just off the kitchen, on the left.
•
Tom: Nice place you've got here. Uh, where is your powder room? Beth: At the top of the stairs.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
Look at other dictionaries:
powder room — 1. n. a small bathroom without bathing facilities in a private home, usually located for the convenience of guests. □ Can I use your powder room? □ Excuse me, where is the powder room? 2. n. the ladies’ restroom in a public place, especially a… … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
Where There's Smoke There's Fired — Infobox Television episode | Title = Where There’s Smoke There’s Fired Series = Frasier Caption = Frasier discovering who Big Willy s fiancée is Season = 3 Episode = 21 Airdate = 30 April 1996 Production = Writer = Joe Keenan [… … Wikipedia
Locked room mystery — The locked room mystery is a sub genre of detective fiction wherein a crime such as murder is committed under apparently impossible circumstances typically involving a crime scene that no intruder could have entered or exited (thus locked room ) … Wikipedia
Arkadi Monastery — Venetian baroque church at Moni Arkadiou The monastery of Arkadi (in Greek: / Moní Arkadhíou) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery, situated on a fertile plateau 14 mi (23 km) to the southeast of Rethymnon on the island of Crete (in Greece) … Wikipedia
performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains … Universalium
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind … Proverbs new dictionary
List of words having different meanings in British and American English: A–L — Differences between American and British English American English … Wikipedia
List of World War II films — Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or mini series which feature events of World War II in the narrative. A separate list of full fledged TV series appears at the end. Contents 1 Restrictions 2 Films made during the war … Wikipedia
Public toilet — This article is about a room or building available for public use contains a toilet. For a room in a private house containing a toilet, see toilet (room). For the film, see Public Toilet (film). Sinks in the public toilet of the Castle Terrace… … Wikipedia
Top Hat — For the item of clothing, see top hat. For the fictional TUGS character, see Top Hat (TUGS). Infobox Film name = Top Hat caption = director = Mark Sandrich producer = Pandro S. Berman writer = Allan Scott Dwight Taylor starring = Fred Astaire… … Wikipedia
Scott, George C. — (1926–1999) Born in Wise, Virginia, George C. Scott attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism until he found that he preferred acting. He appeared in campus productions and graduated to Off Broadway and Broadway after … The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick
