piss and vinegar

piss and vinegar

An abundance or excessive amount of boisterous, youthful energy, enthusiasm, or rowdiness. For all their piss and vinegar, the home team just didn't have the skill necessary to beat their cross-town rivals. It took having kids of my own to remember how full of piss and vinegar a child can be at 6 AM.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

piss and vinegar

aggressive energy.
See also: and, piss, vinegar
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • be full of piss and vinegar
  • full of piss and vinegar
  • vim and vigor
  • take a piss
  • be on the piss
  • be (out) on the piss
  • piss up
  • piss-up
  • piece of piss
  • a piece of piss
References in periodicals archive
Much piss and vinegar. Here he is refreshingly sardonic: "North Beach is neither a beach or particularly north.