Talk:hold one's urine


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< mutante_> can hold_one's_urine really be a noun? < LinkyC> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hold_one%27s_urine < Amgine> I... don't think so. I've never ever heard that phrase. < Dvorty|gone> hold it might be used idiomatically that way, but I don't think that one is really used as such. < LinkyC> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hold_it < Dvorty|gone> And it looks like the page only shows up on cleanup lists and categorizing pages: Special:WhatLinksHere/hold_one%27s_urine < mutante_> change Noun to Verb ? < Dvorty|gone> mutante: yes, and then RFV/RFD the whole thing. I don't think it's really used that way that much.

Mutante 16:12, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Out of context this sounded odd to me, but I checked b.g.c.; gets 110 hits, and when I look through them, in context they sound quite natural to me. I'll add a few to the entry. —Ruakh TALK 16:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Cited. —Ruakh TALK 17:09, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * What was the entry before? Seems painfully sum-of-parts and wildly uncommon.  In what way is it a set phrase or idiomatic?  Move to RFD and delete.  --Connel MacKenzie 00:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

RFV passed. Tag will be removed forthwith. Not striking this section, so it won't be bot-archived, and can be moved to RFD per Connel.—msh210 ℠ 21:11, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

hold one's urine

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< mutante_> can hold_one's_urine really be a noun? < LinkyC> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hold_one%27s_urine < Amgine> I... don't think so. I've never ever heard that phrase. < Dvorty|gone> hold it might be used idiomatically that way, but I don't think that one is really used as such. < LinkyC> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hold_it < Dvorty|gone> And it looks like the page only shows up on cleanup lists and categorizing pages: Special:WhatLinksHere/hold_one%27s_urine < mutante_> change Noun to Verb ? < Dvorty|gone> mutante: yes, and then RFV/RFD the whole thing. I don't think it's really used that way that much.

Mutante 16:12, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Out of context this sounded odd to me, but I checked b.g.c.; gets 110 hits, and when I look through them, in context they sound quite natural to me. I'll add a few to the entry. —Ruakh TALK 16:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Cited. —Ruakh TALK 17:09, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * What was the entry before? Seems painfully sum-of-parts and wildly uncommon.  In what way is it a set phrase or idiomatic?  Move to RFD and delete.  --Connel MacKenzie 00:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

RFV passed. Tag will be removed forthwith. Not striking this section, so it won't be bot-archived, and can be moved to RFD per Connel.—msh210 ℠ 21:11, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Not set phrase, not common phrase, not idiomatic, not a recognized phrase, only sum of parts - but only then, in a very restricted context. --Connel MacKenzie 01:06, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Keep. Regarding its commonness: gets 662 hits, which isn't half bad given its fairly limited context. Regarding its sum-of-parts-ness: I see how you could think that, but I think you're mistaken. Note that the term was originally defined here wrongly, and as far as I can tell, no one suspected the right definition until I actually added a few quotations, and looked through other b.g.c. hits, and the correct definition became clear. (The definition originally given would have been accurate for undefined:, though.) I think that if native speakers can't accurately guess the meaning of a phrase, that suggests that the term is not sum-of-parts. Regarding its restricted context: Odd, I'd have considered that a reason to keep the entry, so that we can elucidate that context. —Ruakh TALK 14:04, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

No consensus: kept.—msh210 ℠  20:11, 7 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Excuse me? There is no justification for keeping this.  It is not a set-phrase, is not idiomatic, is sum-of-parts in the restricted medical context cited; but not a medicinal-specific phrase, just nonsense.  Delete.  --Connel MacKenzie 17:36, 16 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. Common? No but does it exist? Yes. And it is idiomatic because it's a medical term. Mglovesfun 23:31, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Kept again. (As an involved party, I feel a bit bad about closing this, but man does this page need clearing out. If anyone's particularly bothered by this, you can re-open it.) —Ruakh TALK 22:30, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Deletion discussion
See Talk:hold one's pee. bd2412 T 18:34, 20 February 2015 (UTC)