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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Drunk

As drunk as a beggar.
—Anonymous

Drunk as a boiled owl.
—Anonymous

Drunk as a bunghole.
—Anonymous

Drunk as a piper.
—Anonymous

Drunk as a tinker.
—Anonymous

Drunk as a top.
—Anonymous

Drunk as David’s saw.
—Anonymous

Drunk as blazes.
—Anonymous

As drunk as three in a bed.
—Anonymous

Dronken … as a rat.
—Andrew Borde (Boke of Knowledge, 1542)

Drunk as a lord.
—George Colman, the Younger

Drunk as a porter.
—Nathaniel Field

Drougen [drunk] as an ape.
—John Grange

Drunk as fish.
—Ben Jonson

Drunk as Davy’s sow on a frosty night.
—Rudyard Kipling

Drunk like Lot.
—Andrew Marvell

Drunk as a fiddler.
—The Puritan

Drunk as a wheel-barrow.
—Samuel Wesley

Drunk as a beast.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Drunk as a drum.
—Women’s Petition Against Coffee