to piss off
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9.9
- phrasal verb
- /pɪs ɔf/
- Offensive
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- It's high stakes, so try not to piss off half your constituents.
Like I'm really, really, if you piss me off, you're gone.
- Like I'm really, really, if you piss me off, you're gone.
- I could see how that could kind of piss off a whole race.
- But it really pisses people off, like, really bad.
- And that in turn pissed off the oldest member, Kevin.
- So I will piss off a lot of people in this show.
- What did you do to piss off this documentarian?
- Oh, I have to tell you guys how I pissed off the EDM people on Twitter.
- And that's what it really pisses off the banks.
- But the girl in Bob's Burgers bruh pisses me off so much.
- And that one really pissed me off because it was, yeah, understatement.
Examples
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So is there a question now, or are you just trying to piss me off?
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Like my kids do stuff that piss me off all the time.
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I could see how that could kind of piss off a whole race.
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So I will piss off a lot of people in this show.
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You piss me off, you know that?
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But it really pisses people off, like, really bad.
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What did you do to piss off this documentarian?
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Now why don't you be a dear and piss off?
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Is there anything that upsets you or pisses you off in your industry?
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I don't want to piss off my boss before the big meeting.
Synonyms
524
2.8
Cause a person to feel hurt, upset and angry because of your words or actions
246
1.0
Make someone slightly angry or bothered by small repeated actions
78
2.9
Make someone feel annoyed or impatient, often by repeated small actions
25
6.3
Make someone feel annoyed
To make someone angry or upset
To annoy someone by doing the same small things again and again
Antonyms
How Angry
Surface Forms
Morphology
piss + off
The sense 'to annoy' or the interjectional 'go away' is idiomatic and tied to vulgar usage rather than a compositional combination of 'piss' (to urinate) + 'off' (away). A B1 learner who knows the literal meanings of the constituents would not reliably infer the MWE's insulting/annoying force, so its meaning is unpredictable from the parts.
Etymology
The verb piss off may come from the rude order piss off, literally meaning 'go and pee somewhere else' to tell someone to leave. That strong image of sending someone away became the meaning 'to annoy' or 'to anger' someone today.