to have or take a piss

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• take the piss —    to taunt or mimic    The etymology is unclear:     It hadn t occurred to me that people take the piss out of Bugs. (Garland, 1996 Bugs did not have a catheter) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• take the piss — idiom. tease; mock; have fun at someone s expense …   English slang

• piss-take — n [C usually singular] BrE informal not polite something you do to make people laugh at someone, especially by copying them in a funny way ▪ The record is a piss take of people who have a high opinion of themselves. →take the piss out of sb/sth… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• piss — piss1 [pıs] v [i]spoken not polite [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: pissier, from Vulgar Latin pissiare] 1.) to ↑urinate 2.) piss in the wind to waste time or effort trying to do something that is impossible 3.) it is piss …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• piss — 1 verb 1 (I) informal an impolite word meaning to urinate 2 piss all over sb spoken an impolite expression meaning to thoroughly defeat a person or a team 3 piss in the wind spoken an impolite expression meaning to waste time or effort trying to… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• take — I [[t]te͟ɪk[/t]] USED WITH NOUNS DESCRIBING ACTIONS ♦ takes, taking, took, taken (Take is used in combination with a wide range of nouns, where the meaning of the combination is mostly given by the noun. Many of these combinations are common… …   English dictionary

• piss — I UK [pɪs] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms piss : present tense I/you/we/they piss he/she/it pisses present participle pissing past tense pissed past participle pissed impolite 1) to get rid of waste liquid from your body. A more polite word… …   English dictionary

• take the mickey — vb British to mock, deride, poke fun at. These expressions are milder versions of take the piss. Unbeknownst to most users, they employ rhyming slang; Mickey is short for a mythical Mickey Bliss , pro viding the rhyme for piss. Michael is a… …   Contemporary slang

• take the michael — vb British to mock, deride, poke fun at. These expressions are milder versions of take the piss. Unbeknownst to most users, they employ rhyming slang; Mickey is short for a mythical Mickey Bliss , pro viding the rhyme for piss. Michael is a… …   Contemporary slang

• take the mick/mickey/michael — vb British to mock, deride, poke fun at. These expressions are milder versions of take the piss. Unbeknownst to most users, they employ rhyming slang; Mickey is short for a mythical Mickey Bliss , pro viding the rhyme for piss. Michael is a… …   Contemporary slang

• take a leak — verb eliminate urine Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug • Syn: ↑make, ↑urinate, ↑piddle, ↑puddle, ↑micturate, ↑piss, ↑pee, ↑pee pee, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary