pissing contest
Americannoun
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That pay-cable show about the pissing contest between the rich lawyer and the rich hedge-funder is, it turns out, one of the most sneakily progressive and feminist hours of television on the air.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018
And my publicist used a glorious old adage: “Sara, a Twitter fight is a pissing contest, and everybody gets soaked.”
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2016
“Of all the people you don’t want to start a pissing contest with ” “Well, it’s been started,” I said.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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