Doing a bit of research on diuretics today and tripped over the use of furosemide to control excersise induced bleeding in horses.
Show me the receipts! This seems to mean a similar thing to "piss in your pocket". So consider the source.Just wanted to add a visual. The 'weigh' is a corruption of the old word wegan which meant carry or lift.
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There is also early Irish literature about female pissing contests. The horse would then urinate substantially and drop a few pounds in the process. Wee, and Wee-wee, may well be variant of pee. Ancient Greece It was only open about five or six years, and it’s season went through late fall to early spring, (not a particularly agreeable time to be outside or in a cold barn, or a muddy race track), in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Region, which I think caused it’s quick demise.Yes yes. That itself is a jokey euphemism and appears to derive from the 'P' in piss. was quoted as saying: "You boys have to understand .. that I have to deal with a combination like that of Hartley-David; it is like having a pissing contest with a skunk." I once heard a guy say you have to sh*t on the run like a Russian race horse, as in you don't have time to stop and take care of it properly.Still have questions?
I mean, the actual word for them is urine or feces.
It was regularly used by a buddy from WA state, maybe it was a regional saying, as I’ve never heard anyone else use it.We were saying it in the early 1960s in Pennsylvania.The phrase dates back to at least 1975, as I clearly remember being 3 years old and my parents saying it at that time. It has been speculated that the “race” part was included as it implies urgency, hence the meaning of “urgent need to urinate.” However, the first documented instances of the exact expression have the same meaning and usage as the original “piss like a horse”- urinate a massive amount, rather than specifically referring to the pressing need to urinate a massive amount.
Can you please tell me how the term "I have to pee like a Russian race horse" originated?
Someone asked.How would I know? pissier "urinate" (12c. To begin with, a version of the expression was born sometime just after the mid-20th century. WEIGH ANCHOR. In fact show and racehorses are frequently returned to their pens to allow them to urinate. *pissiare, of imitative origin. 'Pee', as a name for a man's coarse coat, is recorded as early as 1485, so it is possible that that is what Dekker was referring to in his 1602 citation. The perceived benefit of this is that the horses can be induced to shed some quick pounds before the race and the net effect, besides the major benefit of reducing instances of pulmonary hemorrhaging, is thought to be better race times.So it has been speculated that the rise of the use of this drug in the 1970s in horse racing may have seen the expression transition from “piss like a horse” to “piss like a racehorse” – the latter expelling drastically more urine directly before races when on furosemide than their non-doped up brethren. "Pee like a Russian race horse..." Posted by Chris on October 11, 2003. View Results: marzipancakes. In fact show and racehorses are frequently returned to their pens to allow them to urinate. They can apparently pee while running in a race, drenching their drivers.My dad used to say it back in the 1960s…I was less than 10 yrs old…this in SEKansas…it might be a regional thing…R. Oops. An old guy told me the origin was with race horses, but his view was of a jockey driving a sulky pulled by a female race horse. Just like that. When I was asked I said I need to pee “FAST”. 0; 0; 0 . What was more, in scenes akin to a showdown at the OK Corral, the winner of the physical combat almost always turned out to be the lobster that had urinated first. I've looked online and can only find the meaning, but not the origin.
At this point, the combustion engine had long since supplanted horse power for transportation and other work, which is perhaps why there aren’t other variants that include things like “piss like a carriage horse” or “plow horse.”So when, specifically, is the first documented instance of this expression? ), from V.L. Pissing contests usually, but not always, take place between males. Two bladders inside the head hold copious amounts of urine, which the lobster squirts through a pair of muscular nozzles beneath its antennae. It was well seeded within pop culture by the mid 70s – and anytime before that.The Dutch equivalent tranlates to: Piss like an oxen at an auctionI too agree with Mark and Nik, the phrase wasin common use among teenage and college males by the mid-1970s.Dude you avoid the subject and infiltrate too much trash in your explaination. The best of us to keep will be the one who can reach right down to the ground.’ None of them could manage to penetrate all the way through the pillar to the ground. I was born in New Jersey. Piss apparently came from the onomatopoeia that urine makes as it flows outwards. Piss- "late 13c., from O.Fr. This phrase is said to come from an old belief that weasels could suck out the inside of an egg leaving its shell intact. The correct phrase is "I have to piss like a Russian racehorse at the Kentucky derby." If the phrase was/is simply "pee like a racehorse", then its origin is more easily understood.
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:50 am. As a noun for urination, pee has been used since 1902, and as a noun for the urine itself, to only 1961. © Copyright 2003 - 2020 Gaia Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved. I think the German word for poop is schisse or something like that, so I see where s**t comes from.I think the German word for poop is schisse or something like that, so I see where s**t comes from.Piss- "late 13c., from O.Fr. They called Derbforgaill, but she wasn’t keen – she thought it was foolish.
Some race fans will bet money on a horse based on witnessing a horse urinate or defecate just prior to a race. WENT WEST.