pissing contest

pissing contest

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Noun

pissing contest (plural pissing contests)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: a competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall.
2. (idiomatic, vulgar, slang) A pointless competition, dispute or conflict, often over some trivial matter.

   I'm not getting into a pissing contest with him over who has the fastest car.

   • 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Scribner, →ISBN:

     She won him in a pissing contest.

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Yeah, it's not a big deal. I lobbied for fuel-cell technology on Capitol Hill. I'm friends with Sandy Bullock, really good friends. Who cares? It's not a pissing contest, right, J?

Synonyms

• (pointless competition or dispute): pissing match, pissing war, shitting match, dick-measuring contest, dicksize war

Translations

competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kusemiskilpailu, pissauskilpailu Russian: please add this translation if you can

pointless competition

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kauneuskilpailu (fi) Russian: please add this translation if you can Swedish: tuppfäktning Turkish: sidik yarışı (tr) (literally - colloquial)