wobbly boots
English
Noun
wobbly boots pl (plural only)
- A state of intoxication such that one cannot walk steadily.
- 2000, Nigel Featherstone, Joy, page 156:
- I smiled back for him, thought about you, wondered what kind of night you were having, whether you had your wobbly boots on yet.
- 2002, Beverley Harper, Jackal's Dance:
- She'd be unsteady on her feet or, to put it Gayle's way, wearing wobbly boots.
- 2011, Robin Barratt, The Mammoth Book of Hard Bastards:
- A father and his two big sons had put their “wobbly boots” on after drinking hard in the pub round the corner.
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see wobbly, boots.
Usage notes
Usually used in phrases such as "wearing wobbly boots" or "putting on wobbly boots".