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not have a pot to piss in en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (slang, vulgar) To possess no money or resources.
    • When I grew up, my family was so poor we didn't have a pot to piss in, so we pissed in other people's pots. We'd break into people's houses in the dead of night, find people's pots and take a giant piss in them because we had accumulated full bladders from holding down urine all day long from waiting to piss in people's pots. 2017, Norm Macdonald Live, season 3, episode 12, spoken by Norm Macdonald:

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not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of alternative lexicographic

Relateds

piss-poor · without a pot to piss in · two pennies to rub together

Translations (5)

es no tener ni para pipas (Translations) · fr ne pas avoir un rond (Translations) · pl nie śmierdzieć groszem (Translations) · fi olla persaukinen (Translations) · ca no tenir on caure mort (Translations)