Could I use your powder room?



Could I use your powder room?

 and Can I use your powder room?; May I use your powder room?; Where is your powder room?
Euph. a polite way to ask to use the bathroom in someone's home. (Alludes to a woman powdering her nose. Sometimes used jocularly by men. See also powder one's nose.) Mary: Oh, Sally, could I use your powder room? Sally: Of course. It's just off the kitchen, on the left. Tom: Nice place you've got here. Uh, where is your powder room? Beth: At the top of the stairs.
See also: could, powder, use

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Adelardo-Spanish, Italian (Archaic)
Summer['sʌmə]
IoIE-o (English), EE-o (English)Greek Mythology
Yan (2)-Chinese
Jen[dʒen]
Vladislavvlah-dee-SLAHF (Russian)Russian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Medieval Slavic