English Explanatory Dictionary

drunk as Chloe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Very drunk.

Pronunciation

EN-AU ck1 drunk as Chloe.ogg En-au-drunk as Chloe.ogg

Word forms

drunk as Chloe

Etymology

Possibly a reference to the Chloe mentioned in the poetry of Matthew Prior. * Australian vernacular usage (reported by Partridge and others) is influenced by, and often thought to refer to, the well-known nude painting Chloé, which was hung briefly (in 1883) at the National Gallery of Victoria, and later (from 1908) at the Young and Jacksons hotel, Melbourne.

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 David's sow full as a goog pissed as a fart pissed as a newt tight as a tick
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