not have a pot to piss in

English

Alternative forms

• not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

Pronunciation

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Verb

not have a pot to piss in

1. (slang, vulgar) To possess no money or resources.
   • 2017, Norm Macdonald Live, season 3, episode 12, spoken by Norm Macdonald:

     When I grew up, my family was so poor we didn't have a pot to piss in, so we pissed in other people's pots. We'd break into people's houses in the dead of night, find people's pots and take a giant piss in them because we had accumulated full bladders from holding down urine all day long from waiting to piss in people's pots.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: no tenir on caure mort
• Finnish: olla persaukinen
• French: ne pas avoir un rond
• Polish: nie śmierdzieć groszem (pl) impf
• Spanish: no tener ni para pipas

See also

• piss-poor
• two pennies to rub together
• without a pot to piss in