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

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

"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 Scott, Michael

He told our Mr. Morshed he'd follow him more sang frays, which is French for dead, drunk, or damned.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard

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 Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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 Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth