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drunk as a lord en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:simile) Completely drunk.
    • "How he managed to light it, God knows, for he was as drunk as a lord. 2006, Edward Marston, The Princess of Denmark: An Elizabethan Theater Mystery Featuring Nicholas Bracewell, St. Martin's Minotaur, →ISBN, page 17:
    • "Good many of them drunk as lords," said DuBois of the established merriment of the guests. 1997, Max Crawford, Lords of the Plain : A Novel, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 183:
    • He gave her a good hidin' an' went to th' Blue Lion an' got as drunk as a lord. 1909, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden:
    • Then vodka was brought out; the hero of the day would get drunk as a lord and always walked all over the prison, reeling and staggering, trying to show to everyone that he was drunk, that he was “jolly” and so deserving of general respect. Everywhere among the Russian people a certain sympathy is felt for a drunken man; in prison he was positively treated with respect. 2004, Fyofor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead:

Antonyms

sober as a judge

Synonyms

drunk as a fiddler · tight as a tick · drunk as a cunt (drunk similes) · drunk as a piper · drunk as David's sow · pissed as a fart · drunk as Chloe · drunk as an owl · pissed as a newt · drunk as a skunk · drunk as a wheelbarrow · full as a goog · drunk as a sow · drunk as a fiddler's bitch

Translations (5)

fi umpikännissä (completely drunk) · lv pilns kā mārks (completely drunk) · da fuld som en allike (completely drunk) · et maani täis (completely drunk) · fi kännissä kuin käki (completely drunk)