Urinal of the Planets
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Derogatory name for Ireland: an island and country in northwestern Europe.
— A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland's wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Planets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.)
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In allusion to the frequent rainy weather.
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