"piss up a rope" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-piss up a rope.ogg [Australia] Forms: pisses up a rope [present, singular, third-person], pissing up a rope [participle, present], pissed up a rope [participle, past], pissed up a rope [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} piss up a rope (third-person singular simple present pisses up a rope, present participle pissing up a rope, simple past and past participle pissed up a rope)
  1. (slang, vulgar) To engage in futile or impossible activity. Tags: slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-piss_up_a_rope-en-verb--PameoDG
  2. (slang, vulgar, imperative, dismissal) Used as an abrupt dismissal. Tags: imperative, slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-piss_up_a_rope-en-verb-QVTF4Kt2 Categories (other): English dismissals, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pound sand Related terms: piss in the wind

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