A term used by
people of
high political status, such as a mayor, a chief, a selectman, a representative, a president, what have you. This term is commonly used to be synonymous with "I have to
poop", but this version is used to make conversation less awkward.
Barack
Obama leaned over to Vladimir
Putin during an interview and said "Pardon me, I have to uuuuh...
well, let's just say I should be passing legislation."