до ветру

• ДО ВЕТРУ пойти, выйти, хотеть и т.п. substand

[PrepP; Invar; adv]

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⇒ (to go, go outside etc) in order to urinate or defecate:

- (go outside) to relieve o.s. (to answer the call of nature);

- (go to <use etc>) the outhouse;

- (go out) to do one's business.

     ♦ "Что вам нужно, зачем стучите?" - "Выйти до ветру", - заявил дед глубоким басом проповедника. "Господи, да у вас же в номере туалет!" (Грекова 3). "What do you want? Why are you carrying on like this?" "Need the outhouse," the old man intoned in the deep bass voice of a preacher. "Good Lord, you've got a toilet in your room!" (3a).

     ♦ ...Самая любимая их байка была о начальнике экспедиции, который вышел утром "до ветру" и, сидя за сугробом, почувствовал, что кто-то лизнул его сзади (Войнович 6). ...Their favorite story was about an expedition chief who went out "to do his business" one morning and, as he was crouching behind a snowdrift, felt someone lick his behind (6a).