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Idiom

cat piss

Vulgar

Meaning

Any beverage of low quality.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I cannot drink this coffee; it tastes like cat piss.”

“The bartender served us a cheap, watery beer that tasted exactly like cat piss.”

“After the sommelier poured the vinegar-like vintage, the critic remarked that the wine tasted like absolute cat piss.”

Examples

simple

“I cannot drink this coffee; it tastes like cat piss.”

contextual

“The bartender served us a cheap, watery beer that tasted exactly like cat piss.”

complex

“After the sommelier poured the vinegar-like vintage, the critic remarked that the wine tasted like absolute cat piss.”

Origin

From *cat* + *piss*. The marijuana sense derives from the perceived resemblance of the smell.

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