| 单词 | like a drowned mouse |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike a drowned mouse a. †drunk as a (drowned) mouse: very drunk (obsolete). †like a drowned mouse: soaking wet; in a miserable plight (obsolete). ΘΚΠ 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 a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 70 (MED) When þat he is dronke ase a dreynt mous, þenne we schule borewe þe wed ate bayly. c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1261 We faren as he that dronke is as a mous. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 12998 (MED) I lese wyt and resoun..Mad and dronke as ys A mous. 1536 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 133 Monckes drynk an bowll after collacyon tell ten or xii. of the clock, and cum to mattens as dronck as myss. 1568 U. Fulwell Like wil to Like sig. Djv I wil pledge Tom tospot, til I be as drunk as a mouse a. 1612 W. Fennor Cornu-copiæ 54 And looking forth did see that miser wight, which (like a drowned mouse) stood dropping there. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. ii. 12 Or pitteous they will looke, like drowned Mice. View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Clarke Phraseologia Puerilis (1671) 298 You are dropping dry, not drown'd I see—look like a drown'd mouse. 1656 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Pictures i. 96 To his House of Bridegroom brought the Bride, each drunk as Mouse. 1850 Harper's Mag. Sept. 516/2 He came home, dripping like a drowned mouse. < as lemmas |
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