Idiom
piss and moan
Vulgar
Meaning
To complain, especially needlessly and loudly.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Stop your pissing and moaning about the weather.”
“He spent the entire meeting pissing and moaning about the new office rules instead of doing his work.”
“Rather than seeking a constructive solution to the problem, the board members preferred to sit in their chairs, pissing and moaning about the inevitable changes to the company policy.”
Examples
simple
“Stop your pissing and moaning about the weather.”
contextual
“He spent the entire meeting pissing and moaning about the new office rules instead of doing his work.”
complex
“Rather than seeking a constructive solution to the problem, the board members preferred to sit in their chairs, pissing and moaning about the inevitable changes to the company policy.”
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