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While the Romans did indeed collect (and tax!) urine for the purpose of hide-tanning, this term's first examples in print only began after WW2. Ezra Pound used the term piss-rotten in 1940, and the first part of this hyphenated word began to be attached to a wider variety of words since then.

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Q: What is the origin of the idiom 'piss-poor'?
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