take care of some very important business

a euphemism for using the restroom. -It makes it sound important, because even though other people think it's not, you know it is.

Excuse me... I have to take care of some very important business. Back in a sec.

by colonel cheesemonkey June 12, 2007

take a reading

(verb) to take a reading is to check out a particular situation in a small way, in order to get an accurate idea of someone's character, usually for the future when the stakes may be higher. The person who is curious may do this deliberately -- or accidentally, for example by observing how a certain person treats others.

Friend #1: "Should I loan Alex my car?"
Friend #2: "Didn't you take a reading last year, when he borrowed your bike and returned it all beat up?"
OR
Friend #3: "Yeah, David definitely seemed like the man of my dreams, but I had to take a reading when he was rude to our waitstaff."
Friend #4: "OMG, how pathetic!"

by liv4mntns October 28, 2009

take a wrench out of the oven

to take a dump; to do #2; to take a smash

I'm going to take a wrench out of the oven.

by wild_bill34 November 14, 2009

take that cookie

To engage in vaginal sex.

I am going to take that cookie Amber.

by cjismitch August 31, 2010

Take a break, that's all there is for now

when you have approved or disapproved all new entries on Urban Dictionary

"Take a break, that's all there is for now"

by Scots April 3, 2015

take it in the shorts

taking it in the ass, financially.

His broker made a fuckton of shady investments, now he's going to take it in the shorts.

by andyfrank December 7, 2015

take a larry

Take a larry is a slang term used for turning left in Canada.'

Can be said as "Taking a larry" or "Take a larry"

Driver: "Do I turn up here?"
Passenger: "Yeah, take a larry ."

by UrbanDictonaryKappa May 28, 2016