open your bowels

open your bowels
   to defecate
   A bowel is literally an intestine, whence any internal organ, and was so used by Cromwell:
    The enemy in all probability will be in our bowels in ten days. (Letter, 1643)
   Now medical jargon:
    'Have you had your bowels open?' he asked. (Bradbury, 1959)

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