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		codelikeawolf 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Urea prices Funnily enough, leather tanners and pee is where the terms "piss poor" (being so poor that you need to sell your pee to tanners for cash) and "doesn't have a pot to piss in" (can't even afford a thing to hold your pee to bring to tanners) came from.

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zamadatix 6 days ago [–]

The given origins for these phrases seem to be considered a modern myth:

https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2019/07/a-pot-to-piss-in.html

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/piss-poor-pot-t...

codelikeawolf 4 days ago | [–]

Serves me right for collecting facts from Instagram memes.

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