Any activity undertaken competitively, decried as futile and useless and where there is no prize or the prize is also equally belittled: pissing contest, dick-measuring contest
köken: Substitution in salto in lungo (“long jump”) with the word piscio (“piss”). Literally, “[game of] long pissing”.
Sei elegante come una gara di piscio in lungo tra camionisti armeni.
beauty pageant, beauty contest (competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive) · dick-measuring contest, pissing contest, beauty pageant, beauty contest (pointless competition, dispute, or conflict, often over some trivial matter)