piss-artist

piss-artist

1. rude slang One who falsely claims to have knowledge about a topic. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. That message board is filled with nothing but piss-artists who think they know everything.
2. rude slang One who is often drunk. I advised Jenny not to date that piss-artist because he drinks his money away at the bar every night.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a mine of information
  • I like pie
  • (one) could go (on) all day (about something)
  • a point of honor
  • a point of honour
  • a point of pride
  • meat and drink to (one)
  • meat and drink to one
  • meat and drink to someone
  • put words into someone's mouth
References in periodicals archive
Being an inorganic piss-artist myself, I could not fully understand his high-brow analysis, but I did enjoy his mud-slinging, because he used organic mud.
Detroit is not Frinton-on-Sea, although fortunately many of the piss-artist elements will be more drawn to the American football going on elsewhere in town that weekend.
As someone who was once considered a serious contender for the all-England piss-artist squad (elite division), I don't mean to be insensitive about the struggles people have with booze.
If he pretends to be the greatest piss-artist since Shakespeare's Falstaff, we fall aboutworse than Euan Blair.
If proof was needed that there is one law for the lager lout and quite another for the pin-striped piss-artist, consider the case of Sir Nicholas Scott.
WE HAVE entered the slow season, the time of year we poor piss-artists (or should I say piss-poor artists) have to work twice as hard to prepare a column, and with the risk of not getting a single libel suit as recognition of our dedication to our ignoble duties, in the sweltering August heat.The legislature has closed down, the black anniversaries of the twin crimes against Cyprus are over, the politicians have gone abroad, DIKO is having yet another inconclusive crisis meeting and the union bosses are in their Protaras holiday homes with the rest of the have-nots of our unfair society.