drunk as David's sow
English
Etymology
According to Grose (1811), from an instance in which a man named David Lloyd, who was accustomed to showing his six-legged sow as a curiosity, found his intoxicated wife where he expected the sow to be.
Adjective
drunk as David's sow (not comparable)
- (simile) Thoroughly drunk.
Synonyms
- drunk as a cunt, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as a fiddler's bitch, drunk as a lord, drunk as a piper, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunk as an owl, drunk as Chloe, full as a goog, pissed as a fart, pissed as a newt, tight as a tick; see also Thesaurus:drunk