Taking the piss
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title:
Taking the piss
text:
Taking the piss is a colloquial term meaning to mock at the expense of others, or to be joking, without the element of offence. It is also sometimes phrased as a question, 'are they taking the piss?', when referring to an individual who takes above and beyond what is thought acceptable, similar to the expression, 'give them an inch and they take a mile.' It is a shortening of the idiom taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff. It is not to b
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encyclopedia
description:
Commonwealth slang
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss
date created:
2005-09-01T09:49:46Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T16:27:17Z
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