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title="answer the call">answer the call</a></i> + <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/call_of_nature#English" title="call of nature">call of nature</a></i> in reference to a need to urinate or defecate. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=answer_the_call_of_nature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content"><a 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<ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic" title="Appendix:Glossary">idiomatic</a><span class="ib-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#euphemism" title="Appendix:Glossary">euphemistic</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> To <a href="/wiki/satisfy" title="satisfy">satisfy</a> a <a href="/wiki/bodily" title="bodily">bodily</a> <a href="/wiki/urge" title="urge">urge</a> to <a href="/wiki/urinate" title="urinate">urinate</a> or <a href="/wiki/defecate" title="defecate">defecate</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>1978</b> April 18, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lynch" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Lynch">Charles Lynch</a>, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=Zc8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Du4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5658,4075550&dq=answer-the-call-of-nature&hl=en">Trudeau struts and frets</a>”, in <cite>Ottawa Citizen</cite>, Canada, retrieved 3 Sept. 2010, page 7:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Che [Guevara] jumped from his seat and rushed from the room, pursued by the entire press corps. Down the hall he went, and into the men's room where, surrounded by reporters, he proceeded to <b>answer the call of nature</b>, shouting: "Liberdad!"</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>2007</b> July 24, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,496153,00.html">Europe's Highest Toilets Installed on Mont Blanc</a>”, in <cite>Spiegel Online International</cite>, retrieved 3 Sept. 2010:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Unfortunately mountain climbers, like everybody else, need to <b>answer the call of nature</b>, and there are few toilet facilities on mountains.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Synonyms">Synonyms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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