holding one's water
Delaying bathroom visits
Holding one's water means controlling the urge to urinate—waiting until an appropriate time or place: Can you hold your water until the next rest stop?
The phrase extends to exercising patience or restraint more generally, especially keeping calm under pressure: Hold your water, we'll get there when we get there.
- keeping one's coolStaying composed when provoked
- cool as a cucumberExtremely calm and composed
- bladder controlUrinary restraint ability
- biting one's tongueDeliberately not speaking up
- keeping mumStaying deliberately silent
patience · poise · endurance · self-discipline · impulse control · playing it cool · tolerance · discretion · calmness · continence · sitting tight · staying put · decorum · tactfulness · muscle tension · propriety · delayed gratification · professionalism
holding one's waterurinating
Expelling bodily fluid waste
peeing · letting go · wetting oneself · voiding · going to the bathroom
holding one's waterlosing control
Authority or composure failing
giving in · breaking down · losing patience · flying off the handle
holding one's waterflying off the handle
Losing composure suddenly
losing one's cool · bursting out · exploding · blurting out · venting
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