"Pissing match with a skunk"

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Another search, but with "pissing match" instead of "pissing  contest."
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_Why Mining - Page 184_
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1553696883&id=g0TBbnb9likC&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq="pissing+match"+and+skunk&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=
iaCIysDbhQFTX4t7IsZrruO2qZk)
by David L McKay - 2002 - 340 pages
(As the saying goes, "when you get into a  pissing match with a skunk, you
're
going to come out  smelling".) While sinking the shaft and developing the ore
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Limited preview - _Table of Contents_
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1553696883&id=g0TBbnb9likC&printsec=toc&dq="pissing+match"+and+skunk&ie=ISO-885
9-1&sig=FWoBfP3RI7Bb3T3EKE7Xa3ynTLc)  - _Index_
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1553696883&id=g0TBbnb9likC&printsec=index&dq="pissing+match"+and+skun
k&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=y3m4jfhkDm_WmDvhqoHth91Byh0)  - _About this  book_
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1553696883&id=g0TBbnb9likC&dq="pissing+match"+
and+skunk&ie=ISO-8859-1)

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