porcelain bus
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Etymology edit
From it being imagined that when gripping the sides of the bowl while vomiting into it that it's like a bus driver gripping the steering wheel of a bus (a bus steering wheel being roughly horizontal, as opposed to a car which has it up at an angle).
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Noun edit
porcelain bus (plural porcelain buses)
- (slang) A toilet bowl.
- 2011, Fred Itfru, The Beer and I, page 10:
- With a gut-wrenching heave, I grasped the steering wheel of the porcelain bus and shouted at the top of my voice for 'Hughie' to come and sort me out.