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high as a kite
Idioms and Phrases
Intoxicated, as by alcohol, as in After three beers she's high as a kite . The adjective high has been used in the sense of “drunk” since the early 1600s; the addition of kite dates from the early 1900s. The phrase is now used of disorientation due to any drug.Example Sentences
An 18-year-old “high as a kite” at a Bob Marley concert.
"They didn’t care at all. The kids were going crazy. They were as high as a kite," he said.
Ramsey made a brisk return and ultimately borrowed Dave Grohl’s iconic giant custom-made, light-up throne that the Foo Fighters headman designed while "high as a kite" as Grohl was nursing his own leg injury in 2015.
“We were high as a kite getting ready,” said Martha Stoodley, 76, a retired management consultant and yoga teacher in Muskogee, Okla. After getting her second Moderna dose on Feb. 12, she waited a few weeks for the immunity to kick in.
"A lot of people said, 'I could see you were high as a kite.' I actually was not," he explained.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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