worshipping the porcelain god
Kneeling, violently ill
Worshipping the porcelain god is a humorous slang expression for vomiting into a toilet, evoking the image of someone kneeling before a toilet bowl as if in prayer.
The phrase typically implies vomiting caused by excessive drinking.
After too many shots, he spent the rest of the night worshipping the porcelain god.
The expression plays on the posture of someone hunched over a toilet and the white porcelain material of most toilet bowls.
- food poisoningSickness from contaminated eating
- stomach bugGastrointestinal viral infection
- pukingForcefully expelling stomach contents
- nauseaPre-vomiting stomach discomfort
- toilet bowlPorcelain waste receptacle
idioms · euphemisms · binge drinking · barfing · dark humor · colloquialisms · retching · gagging · heaving · upchucking · alcohol poisoning · drunk tank · hangover · hair of the dog · spewing · overindulgence · party foul · purging
worshipping the porcelain godteetotaling
Refusing alcoholic beverages
on the wagon · sober as a judge · abstaining · feeling no pain
worshipping the porcelain godfit as a fiddle
In excellent physical condition
in the pink · right as rain · hale and hearty · bright-eyed and bushy-tailed · on top of the world
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