单词 | game as a pissant |
释义 | > as lemmasgame as a pissant 2. Chiefly Australian. In similative and comparative phrases. drunk as a pissant: extremely drunk. game as a pissant: very brave or courageous. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > [adjective] > exceedingly brave oultrepreu1477 over-brave1620 (as) game as a pebble1829 game as a pissant1930 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 77 I'm drunk as a pissant still. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. iv. 87 Game as a piss ant or drunk as a piss ant. 1949 H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley 185 Why, goddam it to Jesus Christ and back, they're thicker than piss ants. 1961 P. White Riders in Chariot xiii. 448 ‘And on such a day!’ she shrieked, looking at the clock. ‘I bet that nephew of yours will be full as a piss-ant by eleven!’ 1993 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 20 Nov. (News & Features section) 3 I was game as a pissant and said, ‘right, we'll give it a go’. < as lemmas |
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