dead drunk

Idioms  

1. 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.

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A storm, attempted murders, witches, wizards, invisible spirits, revolutions, characters drinking until they’re dead drunk, an angry monster named Caliban—can you believe it?

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

"Only dead drunk, I trust?" said the smith; "nay, a candle and a dose of matrimonial advice will bring him to life again."

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott

"Doctor, doctor," shouted he in great pain,—"here, here—it is me that is murdered—that chap is only dead drunk, but I am really dead, or will be, if you don't help."

From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott

At last I obtained permission to leave the custom-house in my carriage, and I went to the "City of Paris" inn with a customs officer, a real demon and dead drunk into the bargain.

From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

The first time Belinda saw his lordship he was dead drunk in the arms of two footmen; his lady, who had just returned from Ranelagh, passed him on the stairs with the utmost contempt.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton