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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Example Sentences

In the film, Kringle is Santa; while in New York for the Macy’s parade he finds the fake Santa, the actor set to play him, dead drunk and not up to the job.

From New York Times

But the colonel ended up dead drunk.

From Seattle Times

"He was dead drunk and could barely walk," a senior railway official is quoted as saying in The Hindu newspaper.

From BBC

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 Literature

In “The Messenger,” he gives this account of one moment in his workday: “As I walked through the concourse of the RCA building, sneezing and reading Lawrence Durrell, dead drunk from the explosion of his words, I suddenly looked up and encountered the long face of Steven Rockefeller. He seemed startled. Doesn’t he think poor people read?”

From New York Times