COULD I USE YOUR POWDER ROOM?

Could I use your powder room?: translation

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.

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Tom: Nice place you've got here. Uh, where is your powder room? Beth: At the top of the stairs.