what does "take the piss" mean?

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Peter
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Re: what does "take the piss" mean?

Post by Peter »

I believe wanker is quite a mild word in "American", and knocking someone up has a totally different meaning over there.
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Re: what does "take the piss" mean?

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The 1980s

Blame it on Rio was an interesting effort

Michael Caine in a comedy and upstaged by a Canadian

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Re: what does "take the piss" mean?

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......and fanny.....
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Oh, Rio....

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You're surely taking the piss. Blame it on Rio could suck the moon out of its orbit, although I did like Caine in Sleuth.

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Re: what does "take the piss" mean?

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Another confusion is 'I'm pissed and I've got a gun'- which here would mean one was intoxicated in possession of a firearm, rather than irate and armed.
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I blame you for this: you encouraged him, just when the megadoses of mogadon and largactil were beginning to take effect............
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I thought the girl who stripped nekkid stole the film.........
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Re: what does "take the piss" mean?

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......that'll teach me to Flatview.......
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