Piss up a rope, question

[miketx]

Where or how did the phrase "piss up a rope" originate? And what is it supposed to mean? I know it means something like f--- off, but it just seems weird.

 

[strollingbones]

assell's Dictionary of Slang only mentions "originally US, 20th
century"; Chapman?s Dictionary of American Slang is a bit more
revealing:
"[...] by 1940s Go away and do something characteristically stupid;
=?get lost,? ?go fly a kite?: ?He asked for another contribution and I
told him to go piss up a rope.?"
(SOURCE: Answer by Ken Greenwald, "piss up a rope", Wordwizard,
December 21, 2002 <http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/founddiscuss.asp?Num=3740>).

As for the usage in other English-speaking cultures (outside the US),
it should be noted, that all of the books listed in Amazon.com with
this term seem to be American or to quote Americans.

 

[Ringel05]

Where or how did the phrase "piss up a rope" originate? And what is it supposed to mean? I know it means something like f--- off, but it just seems weird.

Must be a regional colloquialism, an inbred region I've never been to..........

 

[hjmick]

Where or how did the phrase "piss up a rope" originate? And what is it supposed to mean? I know it means something like f--- off, but it just seems weird.

Must be a regional colloquialism, an inbred region I've never been to..........

I've been using it for decades. I am not inbred and only moved to South Carolina six years ago (more than 34 years in SoCal, 3 n New Mexico).

 

[Ringel05]

Where or how did the phrase "piss up a rope" originate? And what is it supposed to mean? I know it means something like f--- off, but it just seems weird.

Must be a regional colloquialism, an inbred region I've never been to..........

I've been using it for decades. I am not inbred and only moved to South Carolina six years ago (more than 34 years in SoCal, 3 n New Mexico).

Well you're already strange so that doesn't count.

 

[hjmick]

Where or how did the phrase "piss up a rope" originate? And what is it supposed to mean? I know it means something like f--- off, but it just seems weird.

Must be a regional colloquialism, an inbred region I've never been to..........

I've been using it for decades. I am not inbred and only moved to South Carolina six years ago (more than 34 years in SoCal, 3 n New Mexico).

Well you're already strange so that doesn't count.

Honey? Is that you?

 

[Larsky]

Where or how did the phrase "piss up a rope" originate? And what is it supposed to mean? I know it means something like f--- off, but it just seems weird.

Pound it up your porthole.

 

[abrere]

I always thought that by trying it, you'd be likely to piss into your own face.

 

[Missourian]

To "piss up a rope" means to engage in an activity that is impossible/futile...but if you tell someone to Go piss up a rope, you're telling them the equivalent of get lost, go jump in a lake, take a long walk on a short pier ... go attempt this impossible task and don't come back until you succeed...since it can't be done, you'll never see them again.

Can't help with origin.