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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Drunk
 
  As drunk as a beggar.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Drunk as a boiled owl.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Drunk as a bunghole.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Drunk as a piper.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Drunk as a tinker.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Drunk as a top.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Drunk as David’s saw.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Drunk as blazes.
            —Anonymous		  8
  As drunk as three in a bed.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Dronken … as a rat.
            —Andrew Borde (Boke of Knowledge, 1542)		  10
  Drunk as a lord.
            —George Colman, the Younger		  11
  Drunk as a porter.
            —Nathaniel Field		  12
  Drougen [drunk] as an ape.
            —John Grange		  13
  Drunk as fish.
            —Ben Jonson		  14
  Drunk as Davy’s sow on a frosty night.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  15
  Drunk like Lot.
            —Andrew Marvell		  16
  Drunk as a fiddler.
            —The Puritan		  17
  Drunk as a wheel-barrow.
            —Samuel Wesley		  18
  Drunk as a beast.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  19
  Drunk as a drum.
            —Women’s Petition Against Coffee		  20
 
 
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