Taking the piss is a colloquial term meaning to either mock at the expense of others, or to be joking, without the element of offence; or to be "unfair" and take more than is warranted. It is a shortening of the idiom taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff.
Taking the piss is a colloquial term meaning to either mock at the expense of others, or to be joking, without the element of offence; or to be "unfair" and take more than is warranted. It is a shortening of the idiom taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff.
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