Pissing contest

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A pissing contest, pissing duel, or pissing match, is a game in which participants compete to see who can urinate the highest, the farthest, for the longest, or the most accurately. Although the practice is usually associated with adolescent boys, women have been known to play the game, and there are literary depictions of adults competing in it. As a metaphor it is used figuratively to characterise futile ego-driven battling in a pejorative or facetious manner that is often considered vulgar. Since the 1940s, the term has been used as an idiomatic slang expression for contests that are "futile or purposeless", especially if waged in a "conspicuously aggressive manner". The image of two people urinating on each other has been offered as a source of the phrase.

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