pee on someone's chips
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[edit]pee on someone's chips (third-person singular simple present pees on someone's chips, present participle peeing on someone's chips, simple past and past participle peed on someone's chips)
- Alternative form of piss on someone's chips.
- 2004, Erica Munro, chapter 1, in Guilty Feet, London: Piatkus, →ISBN, page 18:
- ‘Well, mate, ten out of ten for sheer brass neck,’ I said, ‘but, without wishing to pee on your chips straight away, mightn’t it be an idea to have a contingency plan just, you know, in the unlikely event of getting a reply of the “bog off, peasants, ’er Majesty’s on ’er break” variety?’
- 2007, Catherine Robinson, chapter 17, in Fat Chance, London: Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 267:
- Well, sorry to pee on your chips, but I somehow don’t think you’re going to cop off with him tonight. Not here, in front of everybody – I don’t think it’s going to be that kind of party.
- 2011, Dermot Milligan [pseudonym; Anthony McGowan], “Tuesday 5 September”, in The Donut Diaries, London: Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 8:
- Dr Morlock stopped smiling. Now she looked like I’d peed on her chips. Except she probably didn’t eat chips. Peed on her lettuce, then.
- 2013, Hilton Pashley, “The Battle of Hobbes End”, in Gabriel’s Clock, London: Andersen Press, →ISBN, page 160:
- They looked at the demon’s body as it floated face down in the pond below, bowler hat bobbing next to her in the water. / ‘Um . . . ?’ said Elgar. / ‘What’s wrong?’ asked Ignatius. / ‘Well, not wanting to pee on your chips, Zorro,’ said Elgar, ‘but aren’t there three of these things?’
- 2014, Marcus Foxwell [pseudonym; Mark J. Edwards], “Collateral Damage”, in Revengeance & Death Row Rejects, MJ3, →ISBN:
- “Does the d.n.a match?” / “Sorry to pee on yer chips boss, but no!”
- 2020 July 6, Mike Holden, Hope Never Dies[1], [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:
- “[…] you have expected Constable Beaumont to have followed up important leads in Manchester if the trail had already gone cold the day before?” / “It wasn’t exactly cold and there were issues that needed to be clarified” / Parker thought, he has peed on his chips with that question.
- 2024, Jacqui Dempster, chapter 16, in The Phantoms of Pittenweem (PJ and the Paranormal Pursuers), Market Harborough, Leicestershire: The Book Guild Ltd, →ISBN:
- I am beginning to wonder if we should find ourselves a different interest. Ghost hunting can sure make it feel, as Shuggie so aptly put it once, ‘like someone has peed on yer chips!’