dead drunk

Idioms and Phrases

Completely intoxicated, as in I can't remember a thing about last night; I was dead drunk . This phrase, first recorded in 1599, alludes to the immobility and insensibility of actual death.

Example Sentences

And esteem it to be a Championlike action if one can but make the t'other dead drunk by his voracity of sucking in most.

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The same moment he saw that, although not dead drunk, she could by no tropical contortion be said to be sober.

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An hour later, when we entered the house we found him stretched dead drunk upon the dining-room sofa.

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We saw nothing of Charlie and so I went to the house to look for him and found him dead drunk on wine.

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I was afraid she would be the next one to be dead drunk, but it never affected her in that way at all.

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