pissing contest

Meanings

nounpissing contest (plural pissing contests)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: a competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall.
slangvulgarA 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.
2 more examples
She won him in a pissing contest.
1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Scribner, →ISBN
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Yeah, it's not a big deal. I lobbied for fuel-cell technology on Capitol Hill. I'm friends with Sandy Bullock, really good friends. Who cares? It's not a pissing contest, right, J?
2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
Synonyms: pissing match, pissing war, shitting match, dick-measuring contest

nounA pointless competition, dispute or conflict, often over some trivial matter.

Also see

Chinese Mandarin 尿尿比賽 /尿尿比赛, 無謂之爭 /无谓之争

尿尿比賽 /尿尿比赛 (niàoniào bǐsài)competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall
無謂之爭 /无谓之争 (wúwèizhīzhēng)pointless competition
雞毛蒜皮 /鸡毛蒜皮 (jīmáosuànpí)pointless competition
口水戰 /口水战 (kǒushuǐzhàn)pointless competition

Finnish kusemiskilpailu, pissauskilpailu

French concours de bites

Italian piscio in lungo

Polish konkurs sikania, konkurs piękności

Swedish tuppfäktning

Tagalog pataasan ng ihi, pataasan ng ihi

Turkish sidik yarışı

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