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drunk as a lord
Idioms and Phrases
Also, drunk as a fiddler or skunk ; falling-down or roaring drunk . Extremely intoxicated, as in He came home drunk as a lord . The three similes have survived numerous others. The first was considered proverbial by the mid-1600s and presumably alludes to the fact that noblemen drank more than commoners (because they could afford to). The fiddler alludes to the practice of plying musicians with alcohol (sometimes instead of pay), whereas skunk , dating from the early 1900s, was undoubtedly chosen for the rhyme. The most graphic variant alludes to someone too drunk to keep his or her balance, as in He couldn't make it up the stairs; be was falling-down drunk . And roaring drunk , alluding to being extremely noisy as well as intoxicated, was first recorded in 1697. Also see dead drunk .Example Sentences
âOn New Yearâs 1971, drunk as a lord, he promised to take her to Alaska,â Judge recalled.
âOn New Yearâs 1971, drunk as a lord, he promised to take her to Alaska,â Judge recalled.
Child like you drunk as a lord ringing for a priest at this hour.
The old dog is drunk as a lord!
The old man was as drunk as a lord and breathing like an apoplectic hog.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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