pissing contest

English

Noun

pissing contest (plural pissing contests)

Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: a competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall.
(idiomatic, vulgar, slang) A pointless competition, dispute or conflict, often over some trivial matter.
I'm not getting into a pissing contest with him over who has the fastest car.
- 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Scribner →ISBN
  She won him in a pissing contest.

Synonyms

(pointless competition or dispute): pissing match, pissing war, shitting match, dick-measuring contest, dicksize war

Translations

competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall

Chinese:
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Finnish: pissauskilpailu
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pointless competition

Chinese:
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Finnish: kauneuskilpailu (fi)
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