Today I Found Out
Where Did the Expression Piss Like a Racehorse Come From? (2017x167)
Air date: Jul 09, 2017
If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check ou→“river” of urine that seems to have impressed some wordsmith sufficiently to coin the phrase, “piss like a (race)horse” – today denoting a full human bladder that needs emptied yesterday. Although authoritative sources for the expression’s origins are non-existent, luckily, the tools of the modern world are at our fingertips to try to track down the origin and progression of this rather uncouth phrase.
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