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Originally Posted by windymiller
This is what I've always understood the phrase to mean.
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Yes, you see toilet water and toiletries on sale , they are all to do with cleaning yourself up.
The idea of "toilets" meaning what they do now is probably the result of Victorian sensitivity , it wasn't the thing to say "I'm going for a piss" so the euphenism "I'm visiting the toilet" came into use.
As for phrases like "wednesday week" , they are well understood but used rather less frequently than "a week on Wednesday"