piss on my leg and tell me it's raining
- idiom
- Offensive
:
tomarme el pelo
- Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining; I know exactly what's going on.
Examples
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Whenever politicians make false promises, it feels like they piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
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He tried to piss on my leg and tell me it's raining, but I wasn't fooled for a second.
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Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining!
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I can't believe he tried to piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
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When he said he'd finished the project, I felt like he was just piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
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I can't believe she tried to piss on my leg and tell me it's raining after forgetting our meeting.
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It's frustrating when someone piss on my leg and tell me it's raining becomes their way of handling problems.
Synonyms
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1.3
To say something that is not true to trick someone
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7.6
Say something that is not true in a bold, obvious way
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2.8
To fool someone as a joke
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4.1
To tell someone something that is not true to make them laugh
To say lies or nonsense to trick someone
To tell someone a false story to impress or trick them
Antonyms
How Deceptive
- Offensive
- Informal
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7.2
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Surface Forms
Morphology
piss + on + mine + leg + and + tell + me + it's + raining
The phrase uses a vivid, vulgar figurative image (someone urinating on another's leg and calling it rain) to convey blatant deception; this metaphorical jump from the literal actions to the pragmatic meaning 'don't try to fool me' is culturally specific and idiomatic. A B1 learner who knows the individual words would unlikely predict the intended sense without prior exposure, so the expression behaves as a non-compositional idiom.
Etymology
The saying piss on my leg and tell me it's raining paints a rude, clear image: a person might piss on someone and then tell me it's raining, pretending the obvious act is something else. So, it means 'to lie openly' or 'to try to fool someone who can see the truth'.