Time to veer into the world of the disgusting...
How many times did you hear this expression in high school or college? If you hung out with the same sort of people that I did--drunken fraternity guys who drank lots of cheap beer--then you heard it a lot. In case you've ever lain awake in the early morning hours wondering where the expression came from, Slate's Explainer has your answer.
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Funny, El Presidente was on Lasix(furosemide) for a while. And he was peeing like a racehorse. I wonder if I could put him in the next Kentucky Derby?
We always used to say, "I have to pee like a Russian racehorse." I wonder if the Russians even have racehorses, and if so, do they pee more? Maybe we just thought the alliteration made it funnier.
Way back in the day the Russian trainers used to tie off the horses penis to keep them from peeing before the race. They called it "pinching" as I recall. Supposedly it made the horse run faster. When the band was cut after the race the horse peed a lot and I'd imagine was quite relieved. Hence ... "I gotta piss like a Russian racehorse."
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