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piss-poor
adjective
extremely poor or feeble UK, 1946
Brought into general usage from British service usage during World War 2.- From the point of view of human interest, it was a piss-poor day, Donald. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 243, 1954
- I have to tell you the time my father and I and a pisspoor bum from Latimer Street took a trip to Nebraska in the middle of the depression to sell flyswatters. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 207, 1957
- How unlike General Eisenhower he is. Make a piss-poor President? — Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 97, 1971
- “ You’d make a piss-poor lawyer,” he replied. “Relax. I’ll handle this.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, p. 129, 1971
- “ I’ve played this kid before,” Bo said. “He’s big, he’s almost sixteen. But he’s got a piss-poor backhand.” — Elmore Leonard, Switch, p. 28, 1978
- Listen, I’ve spent over twenty-five hundred of my own money showing Miskito Indians how to fire an M-60 automatic gun, a piss-poor weapon but all we got. — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 268, 1987
- [P]aying shit-loads to the taxman until you finally retire (if you don’t die first) with a piss-poor pension[.] — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 379, 1999
- Obviously, some of my weekly twenty-five minutes was piss-poor, but it also threw up some good stuff. — Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, p. 45, 2001
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