be as high as a kite
informal to behave in a silly or excited way because you have taken drugs or drunk a lot of alcohol:
I tried to talk to her after the party, but she was as high as a kite.
to feel very happy and excited:
I was as high as a kite when I heard I'd got the job.
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Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- alcoholism
- battered
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriate
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- muzzy
- sloshed
- sober (sb) up
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- whacked
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Feeling pleasure and happiness
Excited, interested and enthusiastic