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DictionarySeedrunkdrunk as a lord
as drunk as a lordVery intoxicated. Do you remember last night at all? You were as drunk as a lord!See also: drunk, lorddrunk as a lordVery intoxicated. Do you remember last night at all? You were drunk as a lord!See also: drunk, lord*drunk as a lord and *drunk as a skunkvery drunk. (*Also: as ~.) After his fifth cocktail, Michael was as drunk as a lord. Judy bought herself a case of beer and proceeded to get as drunk as a skunk.See also: drunk, lorddrunk as a lordAlso, 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. See also: drunk, lorddrunk as a lord (or skunk) extremely drunk.See also: drunk, lord(as) drunk as a ˈlord (British English) (American English (as) drunk as a ˈskunk) (informal) very drunk: I eventually found them in a bar, both as drunk as skunks. OPPOSITE: (as) sober as a judgeSee also: drunk, lorddrunk as a lordExtremely drunk. Members of the nobility could afford to keep quantities of wine, beer, and liquor on hand, and as much out of envy as stating a fact, the common folk described anyone, titled or not, who had a load on by that phrase. In these more egalitarian times, “drunk as a skunk” and, less elegantly, “shit-faced drunk” have replaced “drunk as a lord.”See also: drunk, lordEncyclopediaSeeDrunk |