英语词汇i’ve got to see a man about a dog的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

I’ve got to see a man about a dog. A euphemism for “I’ve got to go to the bathroom” that people use to excuse themselves, of- ten abruptly. In its sense of “to urinate” the expression is British in origin, dating back to 1867. In the U.S. it was first recorded in 1942, when it meant to go for a drink: “[Got to] go see a dog—a dog about a man or a man about a dog.” But this American term for getting a drink is much older in the expression to go see a man, recorded in an 1867 baseball magazine: “. . . the rest of our nine having gone to see a man there was nobody to take the bat.”

词汇	i’ve got to see a man about a dog
词源	I’ve got to see a man about a dog. A euphemism for “I’ve got to go to the bathroom” that people use to excuse themselves, of- ten abruptly. In its sense of “to urinate” the expression is British in origin, dating back to 1867. In the U.S. it was first recorded in 1942, when it meant to go for a drink: “[Got to] go see a dog—a dog about a man or a man about a dog.” But this American term for getting a drink is much older in the expression to go see a man, recorded in an 1867 baseball magazine: “. . . the rest of our nine having gone to see a man there was nobody to take the bat.”
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