piss-water

Incidentally, [Richard] Feynman once told me, while we were watching some show, that fancy-shmancy mathematical physics as applied to physics is not worth “a bottle of piss-water”.

1990, A[nthony] Zee, “The Effectiveness of Mathematics in Fundamental Physics”, in Ronald E[lbert] Mickens, editor, Mathematics and Science, Singapore; Teaneck, N.J.; London: World Scientific, →ISBN, page 311

He leaned back in the rickety wooden chair, pulling from a brown quart bottle of Oriental Brew, the cheap local beer. Snorting, he swallowed hard. “No more of this nasty Korean piss-water, either.”

1991 January 16, James Buckston, “Itaewon Encounter”, in The Retort, volume 61, number 12, Billings, Mont.: Eastern Montana College, →OCLC, page 4, column 3

His life has no direction. There is no dynamic to his actions. His real estate is sitting there, he’s drinking piss-water, and that’s it!

1993, Eric Bogosian, “Scenes from the New World”, in Notes from Underground, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, act 2, page 128

“Try some American beer!” / “No way, it tastes like piss-water. You’ll never get in the mood for the game with such a beer.” / He smiled and he ordered a pitcher. And then came another one and another one. After five pitchers of piss-water, we got drunk.

2004 January 25, Florin Negrutiu, “The American Standard”, in Northeast: The Sunday Magazine of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Conn., →OCLC, page 7, column 1

It’s a bit more than a weird dream, I think before the image of a tequila-faced Antonio drinking piss-water at the edge of a pool flashes suddenly before me.

2011, Emanuel O. Natas, “A Strange Afternoon in Eden”, in Lost in Heaven: An Unholy War for the Promised Land, A Strange Bird Press, LLC, →ISBN, page 84