piss in someone's chips

English

Verb

piss in someone's chips (third-person singular simple present pisses in someone's chips, present participle pissing in someone's chips, simple past and past participle pissed in someone's chips)

1. Alternative form of piss on someone's chips.
   • 1954 July 21, Robert Bolt, “[Barbara Bray letter to RB]”, in Adrian Turner, Robert Bolt: Scenes From Two Lives, London: Hutchinson, published 1998, →ISBN, page 335:

     And I’m hopeless with ladies, as you know, lacking both that easygoing contempt which they find irresistible and also lacking a real instinctive trust in them. I present them I suppose with the worst of both worlds – a limited respect. No wonder they always end by pissing in my chips.

   • 1978, John Buxton Hilton, chapter 15, in Some Run Crooked, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 151:

     I’m not afraid of Dugdale. It isn’t that. I’m in the clear nowadays. I want to stay that way. Dugdale will still be in town when you’ve disappeared in the dust. I can’t afford to be on the wrong side of him. I don’t want you pissing in my chips, Mr Wright.

   • 1994, Tony J. Watson, quoting a manager, “Angst, insecurity and human frailty”, in In Search of Management: Culture, Chaos and Control in Managerial Work, London: International Thomson Business Press, published 1997, →ISBN, chapter 7 (Managing Management: Theory, practice and emotion), page 180:

     You saw me the other day leave that meeting in a hurry. Do you want to know why I left? If I had stayed I would have ruddy thumped that know-it-all bastard. Just you wait, though, when I get the chance I’ll really piss in his chips. I’m no delicate flower and I can shout my mouth off with the best of them at times.

References

• Eric Partridge (1961) “piss in someone’s chips”, in A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English […], 5th edition, New York: Macmillan, page 1223, column 2