Urinal of the Planets

In allusion to the frequent rainy weather.

the Urinal of the Planets

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, derogatory, rare) Derogatory name for Ireland: an island and country in northwestern Europe.
   • 2008, Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Facts on File:

     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.)

   • 2015 April 18, Graham Sutherland, Conspiracy of Fate, Knowle Villa Books, →ISBN:

     'I thought you would have preferred to have been with them in that stinking urinal of the planets, looking for bog-oranges.' Kempe's sympathy towards the plight of the Irish was well known, and he had no sympathisers here tonight.

• “urinal of the planets n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present