hold one's water
Wait to urinate
To hold one's water is to control the urge to urinate: Can you hold your water until the next rest stop?
The phrase often appears as a command to be patient or calm down: Hold your water—we'll get there when we get there.
The figurative sense treats impatience as a kind of urgency that must be contained.
Remaining in expectation
- restraintControl over impulses
- composureEmotional self-control
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
- forbearancePatient self-control, delayed enforcement
tolerance · self-control · calmness · fortitude · perseverance · steadfastness · equanimity · poise
waiting
Remaining in expectation
forbearance · tolerance · self-control · calmness · fortitude · perseverance · steadfastness · equanimity · poise · stoicism
urination
Releasing fluid waste
- continenceControl over bodily functions
- bathroomRoom for hygiene
- restroomFacility with toilets
urgency · pee · toilet · lavatory · incontinence · retention · relief · washroom · loo · bladder
hold one's waterwet oneself
Urinate in clothing
piss oneself · urinate · pee · have an accident · relieve oneself
hold one's waterjump the gun
Start before permitted
can't wait · rush · fly off the handle · rush in · lose one's cool
hold, holds, holding, holder, holders, holdout, holdover, behold, beholden