About a girl

It could mean almost anything. Someone is arranging a date for him on the weekend, and he has to go make a phone call to get information about her or about the date. He is hiring a model for a life drawing class, or an actress for a commercial, or somebody to walk his dog.

THANKS so much

I've never come across the phrase, so Del may be correct.

Guy-talk: I've got to go see a man about a dog = I have to go use the restroom. Your question may involve gal-talk.

Not for this gal. The only euphemism like that I know is "I have to go powder my nose" and I don't think anyone's actually said it for fifty years.

DelmobileNot for this gal. The only euphemism like that I know is "I have to go powder my nose" and I don't think anyone's actually said it for fifty years.

I haven't heard it recently either, I guess. Do today's women still use powder in their makeup?

They sell powder-based foundation in little compacts with mirrors, and I know (from my reading) that you're supposed to "finish" your makeup with translucent powder, which (I think) comes pressed in compacts but is also sold loose to be put on with a big brush.

But I think the fancy decorated compacts that women filled and re-filled with powder and whipped out in glamorous Art Deco nigh