drunk as David's sow

English

Etymology

According to Grose (1811), from an instance in which a man named David Lloyd, who was accustomed to showing his six-legged sow as a curiosity, found his intoxicated wife where he expected the sow to be.

Adjective

drunk as David's sow (not comparable)

  1. (simile) Thoroughly drunk.

Synonyms

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