Idiom
pissing war
Vulgar
Meaning
An immature dispute over some trivial matter.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“They are just having a silly pissing war over who is faster.”
“The meeting turned into a pointless pissing war between the two managers over who had the bigger office.”
“The board members grew tired of the endless pissing war between the departments, as it distracted everyone from the company's actual goals.”
Examples
simple
“They are just having a silly pissing war over who is faster.”
contextual
“The meeting turned into a pointless pissing war between the two managers over who had the bigger office.”
complex
“The board members grew tired of the endless pissing war between the departments, as it distracted everyone from the company's actual goals.”
Origin
The term is derived from the territorial behaviour of specific animals, such as male cats, which employ urine to mark the boundaries of their claims. The phrase likens human disputes over authority to this instinctual method of chemical mapping.
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