Snapping Turtle's Head
Adverb, Metaphor - Describes a crisis of
chronic defecation.
Example
Whist the turtle's head (
turd) is about to fully emerge from its shell, there happens upon it a sudden and quite shocking movement of the bowel.
Because the body believes that such a surge of
power must surely occur DURING the ejection of the faeces, (even though the victim is retaining the
load) the sphincter begins to air-spasm as if snapping the enormous delivery into manageable chunks. The resulting involuntary bodily event is euphemistically known as 'A Snapping Turtle's Head.
It was when I was a minute from my station and too late to escape using the
toilet on the
train, yet knowing that there WAS a
toilet at the approaching platform, that the situation turned critical, the danger imminent! Although I had retained a calm control over the crisis I could only resign myself to the cradle of fate when my body went into SNAPPING TURTLE'S HEAD !