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1642 G. Torriano Sel. Ital. Prov. 19 He who pisseth against the wind, wetteth his shirt.

1663 T. Porter Villain iv. 69 Colig. Slander fly's back in the slanderers face. Host. True, like a man that pisseth against the Wind.]

1734 J. Serenius Dictionarium Anglo-Svethico-Latinum sig. Ss2^v/1 Prov. Piss not against the wind.

1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang V. 215/2 ‘Piss not against the wind’, or ‘He that pisseth against the wind wets his shirt’.

1970 E. Pace Saberlegs (1971) vi. 58 Putting words on newspaper pages was, if anything, even more ephemeral than intelligence-gathering. As they used to say at Dartmouth, it was all ‘pissing in the wind’.

1973 L. Snelling Heresy i. vii. 52 I'd like to buy it, but frankly I think you're pissing against the wind... He's a pretty cunning little bugger.

2001 N.Y. Mag. 3 Dec. 55/2 I get a sense that he knows what will work and what won't... He's the kind of guy who won't be pissing into the wind.