do one's duty

Definitions

1. Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate.
   euphemistic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, duty.

Equivalents

Examples

“And when I was being toilet-trained as a very little boy, she'd always ask⟳, "Have⟳ you done your duty?" That was the word for it.”

“If a society is incapable of that kind of trust⟳, it is also incapable of freedom. But if one really believes that only productivity can create⟳ strength — that a human being, in other words, has to justify⟳ himself or herself by producing something — then maybe the psychoanalysts are right, and everything does go back to toilet training and mother's saying, "Have⟳ you produced today, have⟳ you done your duty?"”

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