extract the urine

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

extract the urine (third-person singular simple present extracts the urine, present participle extracting the urine, simple past and past participle extracted the urine)

1. (idiomatic, humorous, euphemistic) to mock, make fun of something
   • 1997, Des Ryan, “Close brush with hairafter”, in The Messenger: Selected Columns from Messenger Newspapers, 1993-2003‎^[1], Wakefield Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 42:

     Now, Merilyn is neither bizarre nor eccentric in the ordinary sense but when she started talking about the ‘presence’ in her shop I thought she was extracting the urine.

   • 2001 August 19, "BigAl", “Re: fare thee well”, in alt.music.leonard-cohen‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Actually Connie it refers to the way we extract the urine out of the apparent social differences between each country.

   • 2006, Tyne O'Connell, Dumping Princess‎^[3], Bloomsbury USA, published 2007, →ISBN, page 34:

     This is what the English do; take the piss (or as we say at school, extract the urine).

Usage notes

• This is a humorously “polite” way of saying take the piss.