drunk as a lord

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

drunk as a lord

1. (simile) Completely drunk.
   • 1909, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden:

     He gave her a good hidin' an' went to th' Blue Lion an' got as drunk as a lord.

   • 1997, Max Crawford, Lords of the Plain : A Novel, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 183:

     "Good many of them drunk as lords," said DuBois of the established merriment of the guests.

   • 2001, Ryotaro Shiba, Eileen Kato, Drunk as a Lord: Samurai Stories, Kodansha International, →ISBN:
   • 2004, Fyofor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead:

     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.

   • 2006, Edward Marston, The Princess of Denmark: An Elizabethan Theater Mystery Featuring Nicholas Bracewell, St. Martin's Minotaur, →ISBN, page 17:

     "How he managed to light it, God knows, for he was as drunk as a lord.

Usage notes

• This term follows the common pattern of omitting the first "as" of the full form "as drunk as a lord".

Synonyms

• (drunk similes): drunk as a cunt, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as a fiddler's bitch, drunk as a piper, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunk as an owl, drunk as Chloe, drunk as David's sow, full as a goog, pissed as a fart, pissed as a newt, tight as a tick; see also Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

• sober as a judge

Translations

completely drunk

• Danish: fuld som en allike
• Estonian: maani täis
• Finnish: umpikännissä, kännissä kuin käki
• Latvian: pilns kā mārks

References

• Idiom: Drunk as a Lord