[Ads-l] poor as piss

[Laurence Horn]

Ah, piss on a rock. Exactly what’s needed to accompany shit on a shingle.

> On Mar 10, 2021, at 10:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Not in OED, though it has "piss-poor" from 1945, in a cite I sent in
> fifteen years ago.
> 
> 1935 _Partisan Review_ II 41: We's poor as piss on a rock.
> 
> JL
> -- 
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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