pissing

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pissing

rude slang Raining very heavily. It's been pissing outside all day. Looks like we'll have to cancel the game. If it's still pissing like this tomorrow, I think we should just cut the vacation short and head home.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pissing

mod. worthless; minimal. (Usually objectionable.) I got a pissing amount of coffee for a buck and a quarter.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • It's raining pitchforks
  • it's raining pitchforks (and hammer handles)
  • pitchfork
  • lash down
  • it's all the same to me
  • be up to (one)
  • be up to somebody
  • it's on me
  • the way the crow flies
  • it strikes me that
References in periodicals archive
passing clouds then down at the pissing still going on then up again as
BOIES: That is, "JDK 1.2 has JFC, which we're going to be pissing on at every opportunity." GATES: I don't know if he's referring to pissing on JFC or pissing on JDK 1.2 nor do I know what he specifically means by "pissing on." BOIES: Well, do you know that generally he means by pissing on he's going to be saying and Microsoft is going to be saying uncomplimentary things?
The author's empathetic portrayal of the Civil War vet is soured by his pissing on the Vietnam vet, who is depicted as a softie and a whiner.
A man would know that he must mark his passing along the way, that he must carve out his name on the trunks of trees, that he must mark the four corners of his home with the judicious spill of piss, a man knows to make these rice fields, these cotton fields, these creeks as if they are his own: it is how he will journey from the bottom to the top; each dawn, walking the expanse of white people's land, marking trees, pissing, pissing, before sinking hoe into soil, before bleeding into soil, before spitting into soil.
I totally love that you're still pissing people off all these lost years.
Family Standing on a Bridge, Looking into the Future, Pissing, 2001, depicts four figures cast in bronze at two-thirds scale--father, mother, son, and daughter--unequivocally in the act of pissing.
Don't these powerhogs realize they're pissing on Clinton's legacy?
There's the endless territorial pissing match between the rich egomaniac leading one men's group and his snarky, unemployed nemesis in the other; the lesbian mom who seems to like neither her partner nor her kids; the devious house-guest whose presence pleases no one.
There doesn't seem to be all that great a point to pissing off the audience anymore, and the shows are always more fun for everyone involved when you play to the room.