piss in someone's chips

present singular third person pisses in someone's chips · participle present pissing in someone's chips · participle past pissed in someone's chips · past pissed in someone's chips

1. alternativeAlternative form of piss on someone's chips.

   I’m not afraid of Dugdale. It isn’t that. I’m in the clear nowadays. I want to stay that way. Dugdale will still be in town when you’ve disappeared in the dust. I can’t afford to be on the wrong side of him. I don’t want you pissing in my chips, Mr Wright.

   1978, John Buxton Hilton, chapter 15, in Some Run Crooked, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 151

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   And I’m hopeless with ladies, as you know, lacking both that easygoing contempt which they find irresistible and also lacking a real instinctive trust in them. I present them I suppose with the worst of both worlds – a limited respect. No wonder they always end by pissing in my chips.

   1954 July 21, Robert Bolt, “[Barbara Bray letter to RB]”, in Adrian Turner, Robert Bolt: Scenes From Two Lives, London: Hutchinson, published 1998, →ISBN, page 335

   You saw me the other day leave that meeting in a hurry. Do you want to know why I left? If I had stayed I would have ruddy thumped that know-it-all bastard. Just you wait, though, when I get the chance I’ll really piss in his chips. I’m no delicate flower and I can shout my mouth off with the best of them at times.

   1994, Tony J. Watson, quoting a manager, “Angst, insecurity and human frailty”, in In Search of Management: Culture, Chaos and Control in Managerial Work, London: International Thomson Business Press, published 1997, →ISBN, chapter 7 (Managing Management: Theory, practice and emotion), page 180